As I've watched my wife teach our daughter little songs, it has made me remember back to my own mother and grandmother teaching me songs of all sorts. I still have some of those music books and we use them now with our daughter. Watching her sing these little melodies is amazing. We are overwhelmed thinking about her eventually passing them on to her family in the futur,e as we did to her and as was done for us. Music truly passes through time, generations, boundaries, cultures, and hearts.
In this video Mormon Tabernacle Organist Richard Elliott performs his own setting of Antonin Dvorak's lovely "Songs My Mother Taught Me." It is the fourth of seven songs in the Gypsy Songs cycle B. 104, Opus 55.