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From Oregon-
Have you ever been starstruck? I remember one year when I was a kid,
my father took me to Carnegie Hall for a concert featuring a narration
by the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame first baseman Willie Stargell.
Being in the music business himself, he knew the conductor and I went
that evening with the promise, or at least the hope, that I’d be able to
go backstage afterwards to meet this baseball legend.
I lived
for baseball back then. I knew all the stats and all the players’
uniform numbers. Being from Baltimore, I certainly wasn’t a Pirates fan,
a team that had beaten the Orioles in the World Series twice in the
1970s.
But still, I was so excited to meet a true superstar, and I
even brought one of Willie Stargell’s baseball cards, hoping that he
might sign it. My brother still laughs at the sight of me standing
before this giant of a man, staring up with eyes wide open, haltingly
asking “Mr. Stargell” to please sign an autograph, and then watching me
drop the card, not once but twice. He graciously signed it for me, but
from a dignity standpoint, this was not my finest hour.
More here-
https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200130/in-good-faith-being-starstruck-is-something-to-be-embraced
From Akron-
Whenever I watch a show on Netflix or see a movie, I’m always struck
by how dramatic the scenes are - the courtroom encounters, the romantic
professions of love, the stirring chase scenes. And then I contrast this
with my own life, and the interactions I have on a daily basis feel
somehow ... lacking.
It finally struck me one day, that it’s less
about the drama in my life. I mean, sure, I don’t engage in many
high-speed chases with guns blazing, like some sort of clerical version
of James Bond. And my wife wouldn’t take kindly to my living as though I
was starring in a romantic comedy. Nor would my bishop.
But I
realized the thing that’s really missing is the accompanying soundtrack.
What makes so many of these moments tug at the heartstrings or get the
heart pumping, is the music that matches the movement.
That
training scene in “Rocky” set to “Gonna Fly Now” just wouldn’t fly if
Sylvester Stallone was doing one-armed pushups and punching raw meat if
it was set to, say, “The Sound of Silence” or simply silence. Or Darth
Vader entering a scene from “Star Wars” without composer John Williams’
iconic accompanying “Imperial March” theme, wouldn’t create that same
sense of impending doom, than if he just appeared from stage left. Music
sets the mood and heightens the drama and intensifies the emotions that
go with the script.
More here-
https://www.ohio.com/opinion/20190509/in-good-faith-soundtracks-of-our-lives
From Oregon-
