"If only half the money spent on holiday gifts went to buy music records for the little ones!"
Between us and the meaning of the feast lies a deep gulf.
We glut our children with toys and with foods that stuff their stomachs and their whims, and we do not give them even a little artistic nourishment, a little merry music.
Samir went to the market with his mother on the eve of the feast, so that she might buy him his needs and his toys. When they entered the toy shop and he saw the unparalleled rush to buy toys, he thought to himself: if only half this money were spent on buying records for the little ones. And he asked his mother, seeking to understand:
Why do we not put aside half the money we are going to spend here, to buy music records that suit the spirit of the feast?
— Do you think you would find what you want?
— I think not; but the absence of this kind of music comes of no one's asking for it. If people sought it out, this music would be found at once.
And Samir is entirely right. Why do we not take the lesson of little, quick-witted Samir, who understood a child's requirements because he is a child — and the master of the house knows best what is in it?
I want, and am proud, to take the lesson of your words, Samir; and two years from now, God willing, I
shall take my son by the hand and go to the record seller and buy him the merry, well-tuned pieces that may perhaps awaken in him the love of musical taste.
For the little ones there are colors of every kind in the world of music: from folk songs to merry tunes, Western or Eastern — for music has neither creed nor nationality — to joyful wordless
melodies, all of which quicken them and polish their taste and their true understanding of art.
If we buy them "sonatas" of Mozart, there will thrill in their breasts the pride of movement, the love of innocent merriment, and a wide sense of release.
If we buy them Beethoven's Bagatelles and play them to them with deliberation and skill, we create in their small souls that realistic view of life, so that they become neither giddy nor pessimistic — and Beethoven has a realistic stamp that best expresses the middle states.
If we buy them a Lied of Schubert, we open before them fields of delight in heavenly strains and lofty melodies; all the
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