I’m delighted to be have a guest post up over at Jeff Goins’ blog today. Here’s how it begins . . .

When I was younger I played the trombone, but I didn’t really get it. I had friends who got it. You could tell orchestral music did something for them.

But as I get older I’m starting to understand it more. I hear moments in orchestral and chamber music now that make me tear up. It’s not just sound, it’s music, and I’m beginning to hear it.

So many different elements – the different timbres of the instruments, the volume, the tempo, the underlying feel — they all come together to fill the air. When orchestral music is performed well, it can transport me to a different world.

That’s how it is with books too.

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