“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” -Frederick Chopin
Charles Schultz is amazing. I love reading peanuts comics because, really, Schultz and I think a lot alike. He's so interested in the complexities of childhood, yet he recognizes the simplicity of it as well. There's so much to learn when you are young. So many things you have yet to experience.
This particular comic strip reminded me of the first time I heard Chopin... and the first time that I began to appreciate classical music. They are two distinct events, yet they are related. When I was small, I didn't really understand classical music. I thought it all sounded similar. I had no idea!
Chopin is entirely different from Mozart. Mozart is different from Beethoven. Beethoven is different from Bach. Each one wrote from the soul. Chopin, for example, created short, specific, and beautiful scenes. He painted pictures with his music. When I saw this comic, it make me happy to know that Charles Schultz felt the same way about Chopin. You just have to hear the music; take it in. Just let the music paint a picture in my mind.
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