Outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) changed daily search popular keywords and  routine. Updated information about the epidemic at WHO (World Health Organization), is most attention news to me in last month. This tradegedic, sad situations reminds me Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor “Fate”. The development of the music reveals tension, fear, helplessness, and feel dejection makes sympathize in this isolation life at home. 

 On the other hand when I was making supper the other day Claude Debussy : Arabesque No.1 in E Major L.66, was playing from T.V. A simple piano melody it give me spce to fills my head with freshness, bird’s chirping, and scenary of river flows in that brief moment. It made me to speak to my sons as civilized voice ‘Dinner is ready’ not an usual shouting. Music does make this situation.    

   The ventilation function of art can be experienced especially in these terrible daily lives. One scientist likens music to oxygen. The ‘Canadian Association of Music therapists’ reported that when listening to favourite music, the secretion of stress hormones, cortisol, is reduced and immune-stimulating substances are produced.  In 2011, Osaka Medical University in Japan announced that music can help lower blood pressure by reducing cortisol levels. Experts say that the organs that accept pain and music are the same as the brain’s hypothalamus, and that listening to music during pain transmission makes the brain less sensitive to pain. He explained that playing music during surgery or dental procedures is the same principle. Also growing stage for adolescents, it is helpful to have a lot of experiences, but it will be the basis for the future to reach its full potential.

   Famous Apple founder Steve Jobs, Stanford University Graduation Address 

“… You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever…” 

  I hope to graduate from this difficult time by listening any kind of favourite music can give strength to bare and also will fills hope to the end of plague in future.

Ms. Kim.