I walked out of the door of my dentist’s office building this morning to hear the opening strains of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams. This just happens to be my all-time favorite jam, so I stopped in the middle of the alleyway and did a complete 360, looking for the source of the music. Besides the office building, all that was around me was a yellow, dilapidated garage and parking lots, not noted sources for relatively high fidelity classical music. Then I spotted a rough-looking fellow, in painters whites, working a cementious mixture in a white bucket while standing on the bed of pick-up truck parked behind the garage. He saw me doing the spin and he smiled, so I asked him where that wonderful music was coming from. He pointed to a pair of large, black speakers bolted to the lip of the truck bed. He offered up the call sign and frequency of the local college public radio station as the music source. I walked to my car, found the frequency and was immediately transported away to that special place that only greatly loved music can take us. As I exited the parking lot, I rolled down the window and thanked the man for turning me on to the source. I let him know it was my all-time favorite tune and wished him a good day. I drove to a local restaurant for breakfast, all the time grooving on the tune. I parked in the restaurant lot and allowed the last few minutes of the Tallis Fantasia to wash over me. Ah, serendipitous joys from unlikely sources. Sublime.
Then I walked into the restaurant and they were playing Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. Ugh! Ridiculous!
