When Music Wove Generations

We come to our senior friends’ activity room in the afternoon sun spilled like a liquid wave through the windows, filling the room in warmth. We filed in with instruments in hands. We have impressive chat with our senior friends about their recently life news since we left last time. Our laughter mingled with the soft and warmly hugs, this is a good part before our performance.

We lined up for our chamber jazz showing, I cradled my French Horn,  its brass gleaming in the light, while others tuned trumpet, clarinets, violins, piano moved to the right position. When the first notes rose, the clarinet's ripple, the piano heartbeats out the melody, and my horn mellow sigh among the flow of solo, the air around all of us shifted. Music became a bridge, familiar faces full of smiling, leaned forward, their eyes bright with fingers tapping along with our instruments.

  We also bring dancing and singing, I will say, this is the most fun performance part ! We shared dancing with some seniors together,  they jumped with our Sense of rhythm just we explained some rhythm to them, they are dancer with long life experience,  ages steps clumsy but earnest, recalling their dance vitality cells out from body.  We sing the song with them that we pick from their favorite song list, voices trembling and bold, weaving decades between young chords. They shared their dancing story, and singing scene in club with us,  their life stories, fragilis as parchment, unfolded among melody flow in front of us, we feel like we were listeners, learners in full of rich life stories.

When  the final note faded, we finished our show with them together, room glowed with a quite gratitude, the kind that lingers long after goodbyes. We have a good time together with our senior friends. We have this picture together as a deep scene in our life grow up, it's a testament to afternoons where youth and age traded gifts,  music for memory, curiosity for life wisdom.  This make sense we are here together, and we are looking forward to see them for our next date.