Do you have music that inspires you?  Does it change or is it the same music that has inspired you for years?

I have some music that I play when I need to get down to work.  I think that it started when I was young. I can still see my parent’s record player in my mind.  It was wooden and it looked like a big wooden box.  You would lift the top and there was the part that played the records.  There was a shelf of albums under the record player.

It was so long ago that it was not stereo.

I appropriated two of the albums.  I would play them when I was sewing.  I don’t have any idea why I picked those albums but I think it was always the same two.

And years later, I had to buy them on cd so that I could listen to them again.  And then I remembered how they would get my mind ready for work.  I now play them when I am having trouble settling in to get something done.

Yesterday, I discovered that when I changed computers that my iTunes music was not transferred to my new computer.  It was so odd to go to iTunes and find it empty.  I will have to transfer it from my old computer to the new one sometime.  I have music from Amazon that I seem to listen to most of the time.

But this morning, I am having trouble settling in to get work done.  My mind is going a million different ways and does not want to settle down.  But it really needs to settle down.

And then I remembered the music.  I can depend on it to get me working.  Of course, it had been loaded on my iTunes years ago.  Now, I could go and download music from my old computer but that seems like I would be just delaying work again.  And I am willing to bet that it would not go as smoothly as it should and I would lose more time.  So, I looked at the stacks of old cds and found my two old favorites.

In a quick minute, I loaded them on this computer and I can once again start working.  Both cds are from Broadway shows.  One has been made into a movie and I have never seen the movie.  I have a vague idea what that show is about but the other, I have no idea of the plot.  Yes, I can sing the songs without hesitation but I don’t know exactly what the songs refer to in the show.

Are you wondering what the shows are?

The first is Fiddler on the Roof.  Famous, right?  I have never seen it.  I just know the music.  I can guess the plot that goes along with the music.  The second show is a bit more obscure, I think.  The name is The Roar of the Greasepaint – the Smell of the Crowd.  I have no idea what the play was about but I know that the music is part of my life. 

Do you have music that transports you to a place where you can work or relax or read?  Please let me know in the comment section what music moves you and how it moves you.