@rosemarya Funny thing, I hadn't heard of him, but I like the story about how people with health issues were gathering around his music which he didn't plan. It just seemed to happen. I do like his music and think it will help inspire me when I'm painting. When you can get you head into that really creative space where things start to flow, it is magical. For many years I played in the percussion section of a large community band and we gave 6 weekly concerts of all new music. I loved to play the bells (glockenspiel) and xylophone and to be surrounded by music is wonderful... sometimes the percussion or horn section is a bit loud, so sometimes earplugs were in order and I could still hear it just fine. Violin is a really beautiful instrument. I had violin lessons in grade school, but then that teacher left the school, and there was no one to teach violin anymore. I also had piano lessons, so I could migrate to a mallet percussion instrument.