This episode addresses the need for music to help us transcend the mundane, routine aspects of our lives.

This episode addresses the need for music to help us transcend the mundane, routine aspects of our lives. James Conlon explains that our souls are constantly active with matters of the heart - love, passion, yearning, beauty, nostalgia - the very feelings that are the inspiration for classical music. The Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto, with its enormous wellspring of emotion and the spirituality of the Russian soul, reminds us that we don't want to lose contact with the emotions that are the essence of our lives - emotions so easily lost in a sea of daily activities.