The Love Of Music By: Matt Malak

I have loved music from the time that I was a young boy growing up.I can remember way back when living in my house or going to visit my grand mother there was always music of some kind all around. If my mom, dad or grand ma were not watching a special on television the radio, or stereo were always on. I have to admit that in the beginning it was very easy listening to the music that everyone else seemed to really enjoy. At my grand mothers house it was a lot of music of the 50’s & 60’s era. I remember it so well that she always seemed to get excited when a special would come on the television of some of the older artists. I really don’t think there was any type of music that my parents and grand mother didn’t really enjoy, if it was music from way back when to the modern music that was a little difficult for my grand mother to adjust to. As I was growing up I don’t think that there was a musical on television that my  mother and grandmother didn’t watch over and over again, with me sitting by their side watching the movies and me sitting their enthralled with it all. I will never live down that my parent’s and I were at my grand mothers house watching Pretty Women when I was around 1 oar a little longer and that was the first time that I took my first steps. My mom tells everyone that we were sitting on the floor and she had me standing up their dancing with her and my dad when I took my first steps. I know that I owe a lot to my parents for introducing me to all sorts and types of music which is why I think I really enjoyed 7th and 8th grade when I joined my first choir group. I didn’t care that we were singing the most modern music what was important to me is that I enjoyed what I was doing and I loved to learn about the eras and the artists that made the music at the time. I continued with my love of music as I entered into High School and joined the chorus along with many young boys and girl’s.I enjoyed the class so much due to the concerts that we put on through out the year, but I really liked the teacher. He made chorus fun and interesting. The class was so enjoyable my first year of high school that I stayed with it for 3 more years.  As I recall there not too many of us students that didn’t stay in chorus for the full four years and we became a very close knit group of young men and women. If it was not for the love of music a lot of the kids that were in chorus probably would never have become friends. Sure we would have said hi to each other in the halls, but we were all different, some of the kids were scholars, some were jocks, and some were skate boarders, but due to one common interest we were all the same a large group of students that loved performing and loved to learn about music and became friends. If you were to as k do I have a favorite type of music I would probably have to say no. I listen to all different types of music ranging from jazz, classical, pop, rock, country and rap. Each artist seems to have a story to tell and if you listen carefully to some there are lessons to be learned. Some people have asked or stated your young why do you listen to the kind of music that our parents and grand parents listen to, that’s not cool you should be listening to rap, and hard rock that’s what cool today. But those are the kinds of people that are followers, thinking that it’s cool to listen to only one form of music and if they don’t listen to what their friends are listening to then they are considered loners, out of it, queer or any other term that you would like to come up with. I have to admit it but I agree with my mother who says that if you really listen you can relate to what the artists are talking about. A very good example is one of Toby Keith’s songs in it the songs talks about a single minded person that didn’t like country music and he told the singer that he didn’t like the entire twang in music. The artist in the songs states that he should come and listen to him sing at some bar he was performing at. The man decided he would even though his mind had a pre determined mind set that he was not going to enjoy himself in the least. After the singers set was don’t the man came up to him and said hey that was great it seemed like your songs were about him. That after that night he changed his mind about the music he liked. Music puts people in good moods and there are times when you need to sit back and listen to the sad songs when you’re in a sad mood. As they say music makes the world go round.

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