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\u201cHey, you know that piece,\u201d\u2014[singing]\u2014\u201cwhat is<\/em> it?\u201d my friend asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cHmm.\u00a0 Schubert, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

She sang some more, and I knew I was toast.\u00a0 The melody would haunt me until I found out for sure what it was and who wrote it.<\/p>\n

So much of the information we want is available online and from books:\u00a0 pictures, quotes, diagrams, the population of Canada.\u00a0 But a musical snippet can be as elusive and maddening as a scent or a familiar face.\u00a0 If you want to identify such things\u2014i.e., be able to return to them later\u2014asking someone is often still the most direct way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve become blissfully accustomed to poking around on my computer to fill in my knowledge gaps in private.\u00a0 No one ever has to find out I\u2019d forgotten, or never quite knew, what Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle actually states.\u00a0 Picking someone’s musical brain is by definition a social act; it also takes a certain bold confidence that the itch is worth scratching. \u00a0Did I really want to plow through the discomfort, the exposure, of cornering innocent victims until I got the answer?<\/p>\n

I started with my husband, but no luck, so I phoned our son Reuben.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t know, either.\u00a0 \u201cDude, you\u2019re a music major,\u201d I pointed out helpfully.\u00a0 College tuition\u2014grrr.<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, I don\u2019t know all of Schubert.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is famous.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fugue, only not from the baroque period.\u00a0 Or maybe it\u2019s a canon.\u00a0 And it\u2019s symphonic.\u201d\u00a0 I kept singing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gotta go, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDat shong!\u00a0 Dat shong!<\/em>\u201d I wailed at Reuben\u2014a joke between us.\u00a0 One time when he was barely verbal, he had stamped in frustration and shrieked, \u201cThat song!\u00a0 That song!,\u201d angry that I wasn\u2019t playing for him the CD he was thinking of.\u00a0 He had yet to grasp that we were two separate beings, that I couldn\u2019t read his mind.<\/p>\n

I thought of calling KDFC and singing the theme to someone there.\u00a0 But I\u2019m offended by the station\u2019s mind-bogglingly bland offerings, the announcers\u2019 kindergarten-teacher condescension. \u00a0I winced at the idea of engaging with anyone there in the kind of bantering fraternization that\u2019s required to sing something into a telephone.<\/p>\n

Over the course of a few days, I found myself asking half a dozen people.\u00a0 Everyone joined me in singing, but no one had the answer.<\/p>\n

Finally I thought of something:\u00a0 calling my friend back.\u00a0 \u201cHey, did you ever find out what that piece was?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh.\u00a0 It\u2019s Bizet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBizet?\u201d\u00a0 Bizarre.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote it down somewhere\u2014Arles something, maybe?\u00a0 Girl from Arles?\u00a0 Yeah, my husband has this cousin who just knows everything, and so we called him\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I remember a children\u2019s record about a mother who forgets the melody to a special lullaby, and is unable to comfort her baby to sleep until she hears the tune blowing in the trees.\u00a0 As a child, I found the story unsettling even in its resolution.\u00a0 What if the mother forgot again?\u00a0 Would the trees still remember?<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019ll remember L\u2019Arlesienne<\/em>.\u00a0 The thing has been stuck in my head for days.<\/p>\n

Published in The Piedmont Post<\/em>, March 10, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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