Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Over The Rainbow
Allegedly the judge’s choice for Katharine this week, selected by Simon, is Over The Rainbow. Interesting choice indeed. It could make or easily break her. Here’s hoping for the latter.
That song was a huge favorite of mine when I was very young. I liked to sing it, and would attempt to play it on my grandfather’s organ, using a song book that told you what to press without having to know how to read music.
When I was in first grade, I don’t remember how or why the topic of songs came up, but I sang the beginning of the song in class. The kids made so much fun of me - not for my singing, but for the lyrics and choice of song - that it was a major formative experience in making me more rather than less introverted, and skittish about performing in front of others or making my likes known to others. Other experiences reinforced the “singing in the presence of others” thing over the years, most memorably ones involving a cousin and a stepsister, but that’s where I remember it starting, associated with Over The Rainbow.