Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens . . .

I heard on the radio this morning that the rights for the music and lyrics of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein are being offered for sale. (They wrote South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, and many, many other famous and beautiful musical works for the stage, during the 1940's and 1950's).

Those works are still able to generate box office receipts, and are performed in amateur theaters and schools worldwide. They contain some of the highest quality, most heart-moving popular music ever written (my opinion, and I was trained as a classical musician).

Sad times -- the children of the genius composer-lyricist duo are older, and want or need to realize their financial inheritance. All too soon, they, too, will be gone. Impermanence, at least, of the human person.

Will the new owners love and respect the music as the family has done? I hope so, for all our sakes, for posterity's sake. The music, the words, do have an impermanance, as long as they are performed, as long as they are treated with the respect they deserve.