<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all, <div class="">I thought of you today when I read this on the Writer’s Almanac. Hopefully we’ll be able to do our Music Sunday plan next year. </div><div class="">love to all</div><div class="">Bronwyn</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><strong class="">What Beethoven's Music Will Do to You</strong><br class="">by Bill Holm</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">Listen long enough,<br class="">you'll go stone deaf,<br class="">your body grow squat<br class="">from eating only<br class="">fish and brown sausages<br class="">washed down with hock.<br class="">Christen your sister-in-law<br class="">Queen of the Night, then<br class="">take her to court. Break<br class="">all the piano's strings,<br class="">howl and mutter and brood.<br class="">It'll do you no good.<br class="">He already wrote this music,<br class="">made it into the mirror<br class="">that always shows you<br class="">the back side of yourself<br class="">that you only imagined before.<br class="">Now you'll want to write<br class="">King Lear, paint The Last Supper,<br class="">rebuild the Parthenon.<br class="">That's how it always goes—<br class="">nose to nose with magnitude.</p><div style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>