Yes, we do have earthquakes in California, but after one has lived here awhile, they tend to rattle us very little. That is, unless you are little (as in young).
After the last ones we had, a parent told me the following story. "All Thursday, she was crying and repeating, 'I wish I had piano everyday.' I asked why: 'Because when I play the piano I forget about everything that scares me.'"
Wow! If that doesn't make a piano teacher's day!
Numerous times parents have told me how often when their teen-age child is upset, he/she will go to the piano and feel much better after playing for awhile. But I've never heard of a young child articulating the power of music so well.
I shouldn't be surprised, for there are numerous stories of people in very stressful situations (including in war torn areas), turning to music. While I studied piano in Berlin in '70, a woman told me how in world War II people would go to jazz clubs, walking long distances in the darkened streets, despite the risk of bombing raids, and "pay" with a precious hunk of coal, to listen to music because it was so important to have something to hang onto in the face of hunger, cold, and an insane government.
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