#elementary school music teacher marty has my heart

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doctober 2023 || day 17 Einstein

xvii.

“Okay.”

Marty took a sip of his coffee, flattened his tuba tie, and returned to the helm of his class.

“Who can tell me” – he revealed Beethoven’s stormy portrait – “the name of this week's composer?”

The puzzled faces of the first graders made Marty smirk.

“I guarantee you’ve heard his music before.”

He hit PLAY on the CD player.

The robust, four-note motif of the Fifth Symphony lit up some eyes.

“Ashley, you look like you know,” Marty said to the bouncing six-year-old.

“That’s Einstein!”

“Uh…” Marty chuckled. “He does look a bit like Einstein with that hair, doesn’t he?”