In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are God's gift to all alike.
~ by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Music is a part of life, not separate from it; and life itself is musical with its rhythms, variations of themes, episodes, fugues, counterpoints, consonances and dissonances, cadences, silences, and tonalities. When we listen to music, we are contemplating the very structures and colors that make up our own lives. The music we play mirrors the music we live.