UNFINISHED SONGS
The children of the great composer, Bach, found that the easiest way to awaken their father was to play a few lines of music and leave off the last note. Bach would get up immediately, go to the piano and strike the final chord. Donald Grey Barnhouse told how he awoke one morning during the Christmas season, went to the piano and played Silent Night, purposely stopping before striking the last note. He walked into the hallway and listened to the sounds from the children’s rooms upstairs. His eight-year-old son had stopped reading and was trying to find the final note on his harmonica. Another one of the children was singing the last note with great volume. His wife called, “Donald, did you do that on purpose?” From Escape The Coming Night, by David Jeremiah, Word Books, Copyright 1990, pgs. 165 – 166
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