We all have our nerdy moments . . . don't we?

I'm convinced that music must have some scientific, explainable effect on the emotions.

Why else would I choke up every time Idina Menzel reaches the climax of "Defying Gravity"?

There are certain pieces of music - classical, Broadway, anything genre really (except rap . . . I have yet to moved by a rap song) - that bring some unexplainable moisture to my eyes, every single time I hear them.

Music pulls at the emotions in ways that no other form of expression can. It sweeps us along with it, and we become caught up in the swells of emotion that are captured within. Is it the emotions of the composer? The performer? Or does it simply bring to the surface emotions which we had no idea that we were feeling?

Sometimes I think of music as an river, or ocean, or some other body of water. {only, not a stagnant one, otherwise my analogy ceases to apply} You get caught in the current, swept along - even sometimes against your will - and must go where ever it wants to take you.

Listen to some of these. {well performed, please} Only, please don't tell me if they don't affect you . . . I'd rather be happily oblivious to the extent of my 'nerdiness' . . .

• "Fable" and "The Light in the Piazza" - both from the musical "The Light in the Piazza
• Piu Jesu
• See, I'm Smiling - from 'The Last Five Years'
• Chopin's Ballade in G minor
• Several of Bach's Preludes for cello
• Jacqueline du'Pre's performance of the Elgar Cello concerto

{etc, etc, etc}



Especially listen to this - beauty in the form of operatic voices: I dare you not to be moved.

{disclaimer} It is long, but persevere to the end! {or at least the halfway point}
And in case you don't know who Placido Domingo is . . . you should.

~ For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech.