More on nephew Cashel. For Christmas he was given a little interactive book about famous dead composers. You press on the page, and certain facts are spoken out by a narrator, and you can also hear snippets of the music. Cashel has decided that he wants to be Mozart for Halloween next year. His mother said to me that she feels the dead composers have become the new “Star Wars”, in Cashel’s mind. One obsession replaced by another.
So he will randomly declare facts about composers to Maria, his mother. “So-and-so could read music by the time he was 3 years old.”
He also said to Maria (and I quote): “A man named Holst wrote some music about the planets. The music for Neptune had a soothing harmonic sound, and the music for Mars was a fierce and martial sound.”
Cashel is 5. He said the words “soothing harmonic” and “fierce martial sound” right to Maria.
