Thursday, March 20, 2025
STORY AND COMMENT - BEETHOVEN'S KISS
Apparently, a modern piano teacher gave a student a kiss (before we got all weird about such things) explaining that his instructor had given him the kiss, and the custom went back through several instructors to Beethoven giving one of HIS students a kiss.
I like links with the past... touching, keeping people alive, who are no longer with us... reminding us of the human continuum. In museums I brush past the gold and sculptures and spend time looking at chairs and baskets and toys, thinking about the carpenters, cooks, children... not the kings and queens.
I find myself saying things my father, my grandparents, my great aunt Lula, just Aunt Lula to us (sister of my paternal grandmother) said to me. Simple little tidbits drifting up from childhood and now a part of my being and communication.
"I swan...", "I see, said the blind man...", "What's goin' on, buddy boy..." and many other small space filling snippets.
Yet, how many were said to those people (the older ones born in the latter parts of the 19th century)? How often have I heard, do I repeat, the words of people who are only pictures and names.
Photos: My paternal grandmother, Margaret Geneva Waldrip Baldwin, my father and his brother, about 1912; and her sister, Aunt Lula with my dad at Stone Mountain about 1914 ish.
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Labels: Beethoven, Beethoven's kiss, donovan baldwin, family
