Noah grew up in a house always filled with music. So it was only natural that Noah too would love Mozart as much as Raffi, and Bach as much as Alex deGrassi. To wake Noah in the morning I would often play guitar for him. Singing silly songs about his room. 

"Hey, this room's a mess" 
"You can't even open the door." 
"Hey, this room's a mess" 
"You can't even see the floor" 

He memorized dozens of songs before he was four years old including Trusty Sword from one of his Patch the Pirate tapes. He gave a rousing rendition of this hymn to a captured audience of visitors on Tom Sawyer's Island at Disney World during a thunderstorm that had stranded us all there. As Noah grew we would often play guitar and sing together. It was a wonderful way to know what was on Noah heart. He would just let his feelings come out in the music. Sometimes he would sing a version of a song he had heard, such as the Muppet tune Rainbows. More often though, Noah would make a joyful noise to the Lord.

Noah's favorite classical musician was Johann Sebsastian Bach. In April of 1994 Noah visited Leipzig Germany to attend a music festival dedicated to this great composer. Leipzig was the long time home of Bach (1723-1750) where he was the cantor for the St. Thomas Church. Bach's cantata output in the 1720s is one of the most astonishing creative explosions in the history of Western music.  "Bach wrote a cantata a week", Noah would say. Noah had learned much of the life of Bach from a wonderful CD for children called "Mr. Bach Comes to Call" and he proudly shared this knowledge with the much astonished adults also attending the festival. With great joy Noah sat in St. Thomas Church and listened to the massive organ play the music Bach had written to the glory of God. Bach, not well appreciated during his life, was laid to his final rest in the knave of St. Thomas Church, over 100 years after his death. Noah would tell you he sat just "6 feet from Bach's bones".