What lifts you up during difficult times? Is there something in your life that can reliably centre you? And even more, do you have anything readily available to you that gives you joy?

What is it about music, in particular? How did it bring ones through the darkest times in the past century? What is its power?

Music is an art that brings us both beauty and miracles. Ancient philosophers speculated that it's the language of creation. And it's the paradoxically wonderful meeting place of mathematics and the soul - numbers dipped in delight. Music moves us and lifts us up. Its ratios, rhythms, and harmonies can cause your spirit to soar. Like all the most wonderful things in life, no one can fully explain it, but anyone can feel it. As Rene understood: "Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."