Review: Music Inside
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2013
You expect J.H. Bunting’s story “Hands” to be about hands, but it is all about music. Discovering music. Playing music. Experiencing music. People with music inside see the world differently than people who don’t have any music. In fact, people who don’t have any music in their souls may not even understand this story.They should read it, anyway.I used to wonder what it would be like to get inside the mind of Mozart or Beethoven. I was in awe of what they created. I only barely touched their art when I tried to learn to play flute and piano as a child. After reading “Hands” I think I have an idea what was going on in their heads.This story brought back memories of the days when my daughter and I used to make up music together, piano duets, and piano and flute duos. In those days, the music simply flowed out, as Bunting describes it. People who read this story will learn the difference between a musician and a student of music. The author talks about jazz, but it could be any real music. A fabulous portrait of a life in the shape of music. “Hands” by J. H. Bunting