music in life

It wasn’t until I came to St. Johns that there have been times when through music I have felt a
“presence”
when hearts have met hearts.
HOW MUSIC
CAN TOU
C
H THE
HEART
Talk presented by Pauline Greig ood afternoon...and thank you Sabina and Sharon for inviting me to share with you my theme...Heart to heart with music.
As we are an MSC Parish we are asked “To be on earth the Heart of God”.
So I thought I would share with you a story of “His
Heart” coming to me through music.
When I was a little girl I was given the opportunity to learn piano.
However I was a bit naughty, because once I had read the music and played it a couple of times, I would then play the piece
–
forgetting to turn the page and a look of despair coming from my music teacher. And theory was out of the question...why learn all that when I knew how to play!!
I have to confess I am sorry when I’m asked by my singers, what ke y is that in?
And I haven’t the faintest!! When I became a school teacher in Tasmania I could play the piano for the singing teacher and I also played the organ at the Church of England. (I later became a Catholic after marrying Robert).
I also began pl aying in an orchestra...and when I started thinking about this talk, I thought back to when my heart connected with hearts through the keys of a piano.
And it was when playing for a dance at Bronte Park in
Tasmania for the migrant workers at the constructio n of a hydro
-
electric power station.
Too many men, and no one much to dance with.
Instead they stood and listened. Towards the end of the night I started to play songs they would be familiar with and they began to sing and their eyes told me they were re membering their homelands and families...hearts connected.
It wasn’t until I came to
St. Johns that there have been times when through music I have felt a
“presence” when hearts have met hearts.
I go back to St. John’s
school...as