| When I was in college I was one of the few lucky | | | | in my bones still, or the echoes of the flute at my |
| students who was invited to participate a special | | | | temples. |
| music class whose main concern was to introduce | | | | But my favorites, surprisingly for me, are the |
| students (who were not studying in the | | | | opera pieces. When I was much younger, I found |
| Conservatory) to the wonderful history of music. | | | | operas rather boring, no matter how much my |
| Apparently, I am one of the select who scored | | | | grandmother wanted me to listen to them – |
| high not only in listening skills, but also in general | | | | my grandmother would have been a famous |
| music comprehension. And so my fate was | | | | soprano, had my great-grandfather not insisted |
| somehow decided for me: for the next four | | | | that she take up pharmacy. Still, when I first |
| years, my classmates and I were taught to | | | | heard the beginnings of Verdi's “Aida” |
| identify the individual musical instruments, the | | | | weaving its way out of the radio speakers, I |
| different musical styles, and, most importantly, | | | | knew that I would be listening to it for the rest of |
| the different musical pieces written by different | | | | my life – in a good way. There is love, loss |
| musical composers. Some of us stayed, there are | | | | and politics to be witnessed in this work; it's quite |
| those who left, and there are those who were | | | | easy to get hooked. I've listened to Verdi ever |
| eventually allowed to join us after much hard | | | | since then – it has never failed to help me feel |
| work. All of us, however, still have music in our | | | | more about my life. Since then, many things |
| ears up to this very day. I personally like it; it | | | | become music to my ears. |
| makes me feel good feeling the hum of the violin | | | | |