Thursday, May 25, 2006

Mozart face baiateli mai destepti

Olesia, my host brother's wife, is visiting our house with their six-week-old son, Gabriel. Diana, my 19-year-old host sister, turns on some Russian pop radio in order to soothe him into sleep. Quickly, I grab my Mozart compilation out of my CD collection and say, "This is much better for babies than that noise." She says I can put it in the stereo system, and I do.

Why do I feel like an old man telling a 19-year-old girl to stop listening to that no-good junk she calls music and stick to the good stuff? Because that's what I'm actually saying. Someone's got to save the kid's ears. Plus, doesn't Mozart make babies smarter?

3 Comments:

At 4:03 PM, Blogger Charles Myers said...

Better that he listen to Mozart at an early age and grow up to be a violinist or opera star than being polluted with pop and becoming the next Abba or 2006's worse Eurovision equivalents of Lordi from Finland or Natalia and Arsenium from Moldova. [I was in Scotland while this was going on, and had a few embarrassed Europeans tell me their pop culture woes.]

 
At 7:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am so proud of you. mom

 
At 5:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, he does but not our youngsters

 

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