Listening: the first step toward communicating through music

For me, ‘listening to a child’ conjures up an ideal of a child sitting on a parent’s lap sharing a difficult experience. The child wishes to communicate and the parent is ready to listen. In most of my work, the children have great difficulties in communicating and often don’t appear to want to do so. The parents are often frustrated, feel isolated from their children and some have lost the ability to listen to them.