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When I was a boy, I had a conversation with my father. He told me that music could make you cry. I didn’t have enough life experience at the time...

When I was a boy, I had a conversation with my father. He told me that music could make you cry. I didn’t have enough life experience at the time to understand how this could be so. It sounded silly to me.

But something happened along the way. I became a music major. I played and sang the music, but the music also sang back to me. My maternal grandfather was a famous musician in Korea who translated many of the Italian operas into Korean. As he lay dying in his hospital bed, delirious from illness, my mother and aunts placed some headphones on his ears, and played some of those operas. I watched in amazement as he began humming along and waving his arms as if to conduct an orchestra.

To feel the music so strongly that it whips you from unconsciousness is an amazing gift. To witness this happen to someone with your own eyes is magic. And then you realize how music can make you cry.

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