For Daddy - Mozart was here

Terrible shot of my mug, but the point of the photo isn't me - the plaque above states that in 1766 Mozart played the Müller organ at the ripe old age of 10. The organ is so grand and so staggeringly gigantic, it boggles the mind that his musical genius was accomplished enough at such a tender age that he was able to master the 5,068 pipes. My father sent me on this trip as his proxy, and I hope my photos have done the organ justice. 

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My Oma always liked to repeat the story of a winter that my family spent in Berlin. One of the mornings, I sat and listened to my dad practice in a church near her home in Tempelhof. 

Later that evening, we attended a Christmas concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis Kirche, something modern and jarring. As we walked out Oma asked me what I thought of the concert. Family lore holds that I pondered the question carefully, then pronounced in German with much authority: 

"My Daddy plays better."