Who do you want to meet?

Somebody once asked me, "If you could meet anyone in the world, alive or dead, who would it be?" and I didn't have an answer. But that answer just came to me today... I wish that I could meet Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart.... and tell them how much their music has meant to me. Tell them how it's influenced me ever since I was small... for as long as I can remember I've listened to their music. How after a bad day, I come home and turn on Bach's Prelude Suite No 1 for Cello performed by Yo-Yo Ma and melt away into the music. Or how, even at the age of 16, I still listen to "Mr.Bach Comes to Call," "Beethoven Lives Upstairs," "Tchaikovsky Discovers America" and "Mozart's Magic Flute"... They are what I grew up on and their music reaches into my soul and touches something that nothing else can reach. And I so wish that I could go up to them and say, "Thank you... you made a difference in my life and I'm a better person because of it." These people all became so popular after their deaths and, unless in the next world you can keep an eye on this one, they never knew how much their music was to change the world. I believe that people don't give the classical musicians enough credit. So Mr.Bach, Mr.Beethoven, Mr.Tchaikovsky, Mr.Mozart, and the rest, thank you - without your music I wouldn't be who I am and the world wouldn't be the way it is. I hope that somehow, someway, you know the magnitude of the gift you left this world.

Thank you