THE ORGAN RECITAL

THE ORGAN RECITAL

Jacques Weisel

                        Piano recitals I love; organ recitals leave me cold. Having to listen to my friends and neighbors complain about this organ or that makes me want to scoot out of the sickroom atmosphere as quickly as my feet will run in cadence. I have no time to listen while being silent…notice the same letters in both words; no coincidence there I always say. I don’t ever intend to get sick listening to someone else’s organ recital, consisting of but not limited to  ruptures, transplants, fractures, cancer, heart attack, back pain etc…I’m no doctor, and  I don’t believe I deserve the lack of respect shown by one human for another when they trap you into listening. Since there is so much specialization nowadays most physicians are only interested in listening to a tale of woe regarding one organ, ergo their area of expertise.

            Talk to me about Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D. Minor and I listen with both ears, complete with hearing aids. With my friends and relatives I listen only ONCE to their ailments. After that I am interested in the steps they have taken to ameliorate the offending organ. Speaking of hearing aids, I agree with Thomas Edison. He said he did not have to listen to the plethora of nonsense thrown at him vocally because of his deafness. I wear the aural plugs with friends and/or when giving a lecture, lest I miss an important question or comment.

            I just turned on Bach’s Toccata while I type, 10 minutes of inner silence, peace and tranquility. Beats taking a ‘depression’ pill any day, with no side effects except a feeling of joy. Positive expectancy of normal health is natural; don’t fight it. I like what John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, wrote in 1856 apropos the medical profession:   “Health that mocks the doctor’s rules,

            Knowledge never learned in schools”.

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