Doctor Beck plays new music today. Not just the music of the man named Winter. Doctor Beck has different music. The music is of a man named Mozart. The music of Mozart is great, so great like the sea. It is everywhere with many voices all at once. It is a long story and many stories. It changes as it goes. More and more is in the music. It is not simple like the Winter music. It is big.
I listen to the music of Mozart. I feel in every little place inside me the music of Mozart.
I say, How can anyone make such music?
Is it that I can know Mozart and he can show me how he makes this music?
Doctor Beck says, Mozart is dead.
I am confused. I can hear this music so alive, but Mozart is dead?
Doctor Beck says, Mozart wrote the music a very long time ago. Mila, a writer writes a book, an artist paints a picture, a person makes a thing and sometimes, if the thing is very special, it is saved. It lasts. It lasts longer than the person who made the thing. It is kept alive by others even after the person who made it is dead.
That is what we’re doing here, Mila. You and me. We are making something that will last beyond us. What we are doing will not fade like a sunset. It will not wash away like the waves on the sand.
I remember the sunset. I remember the waves on the sand. This remembering makes a feeling so big inside me.
I say, Each sunset, each wave is something to see once and never again. Is that not special too?
Doctor Beck looks at me, and I think I am saying something wrong. I want only to say right things. I want Doctor Beck to be happy.
Doctor Beck says, Yes, the sunset is important too.
Doctor Beck looks at me. I see excitement in her. I feel excitement in her.
She says, Mila, would you like to learn music like the music of Mozart? It is just another language. Like the language of English.
Sandy is watching Doctor Beck.
Doctor Beck says, We can teach you the language of music, Mila.
I take the hand of Doctor Beck. I like learning language very much. I want to learn everything Doctor Beck wants to show me.
Doctor Beck says, Sometimes human language and music language come together to make a song.
I know songs. I sing for Doctor Beck and Sandy a little song from the Winter tape.
Doctor Beck asks, Who taught you to sing like that, Mila?
I say, I teach me. The little song is so good in my ears, I listen again and again until I know it.
My singing makes Doctor Beck happy. Sandy is happy too. They are happy in different ways.
They want to hear the song again, and I sing for them.
Then they teach me a song. A lullaby. A lullaby is a song for the baby to hear when it goes to sleep. The lullaby they teach me is about a baby all alone in a meadow. It makes me sad. The baby is all alone.
But the song is very pretty. I sing with Sandy and Doctor Beck. When all three, we, sing together, I feel good.
When I go to the sea, I will take this music with me.
The dolphins can like human music, I think.