It’s been both a privilege and a pleasure to help Ted Kuster and his crew on the Camp (Creek) Fire relief effort. In order to do one of my jobs, that of composing personalized thank-you’s to donors, I’ve needed to read all of the answers to “why are you giving” that were submitted with the contributions. What I’ve been struck by most of all is the heavily dominant theme that’s run through probably 75% of the comments–music is at the heart of us, it’s the core of that which binds us together as family, as friends, as people.
So just how human is music? Is it really part of what makes us homo sapiens? Though the jury’s still out…maybe hundreds of years till it’s in…there’s actually a pretty fierce debate that’s been going on since Darwin about which came first, language or music. The Psychology Today article, Which Came First: Music or Language? A theory that language evolved as a subset of music, is but a snizel of what’s out there to read, but it’s a nice appetizer. Read it at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-musical-self/201209/which-came-first-music-or-language
And one more thing. Donate if you haven’t yet by clicking here. And also take in one of our many fundraiser concerts. And for goodness sake tell your friends about the project. We’re up to nearly $40K! Let’s not stall out, folks.
Have a terrific Sunday and a wonderful first week of December. And remember, the arrival of December makes us one month closer to the blue skies and green trees of Grass Valley.