How right he was. It can be soft and romantic or loud and assertive. It can caress, it can stimulate, it can comfort. We court to the music of the dance. We wed to music.
Music is in many birthing rooms and it accompanies first communions and bar mitzvahs.
Thousands of soldiers have marched off to war behind the fffes and drums of a military band. The passengers and crew trapped on the RMS Titanic met their deaths to the strains of the old English hymn Nearer My God to Thee. Music cheers for a football victory and mourns in defeat. Music comforts us, soothes us, lifts us up, gets our blood pumping. We are lucky here in the Brazos Valley to have so much music, from country to rock, from rap to gospel, from polka to Tejano.