Catholics should learn to play instruments, for the sake of elevating and maintaining culture. We should be islands of sanity in the midst of a flood of insanity, chaos, and evil.

My daughters all participate in professional choir groups as well as violin/viola. And privately, they play other instruments as well. My oldest son plays the organ, and my younger son will be starting violin soon (he's only 6).

This song is a banger. If necessary, you can skip to the "good part" (2:50), because it gets REALLY REALLY good. Try to listen to the whole piece if you can. It's under 9 minutes total. Just play it in the background. Trust me, you'll switch back to that window when it gets to the good part.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/klul5lePbAnN/

My girls are wearing white shirts and black skirts. The left-most girl is wearing pants; skip over her.
Most of them are in the first row, the youngest of them is on the far right 2nd row behind a cello; you can't see her much.

That was a great video and great performance for such young musicians. 

I come from a musical family (dad was a performer and studio musician for 50+ yrs) and in addition to performing myself, I've worked with a music teacher.  Playing an instrument and reading sheet music reinforces math skills and reasoning.  Not to mention hand eye coordination.  Plus it's just fun!

Thanks for sharing.

Music is such a valuable skill and can add so much to family culture. Its ability to direct our mind upward is enough for us to know why we should incorporate it into family culture. 

The shepherd boy who sat among his flock with plenty of time to lift his mind upward, and later king, David, comes to mind. To sit with his lyre, playing in contemplation and supplication to his Lord. 
Likewise, To experience sacred music at a high Mass, by my calculation, might be the closest resemblance to heaven we will experience on earth. 

In high school I did an oration about the importance of music for growing minds. I wasn’t Catholic then, so it was more technical in nature, but in preparing for it I learned a lot about how learning music enhances the brain. It’s pretty spectacular. This was during the time that music and arts were being cut from public schools. 

Where we live there isn’t a choir for our girls to participate in, but I figured we have enough girls to make a pretty solid quartet! This year during Hallowtide I taught the kids a souling song and we dreamed up the idea that we will get together a choir of Catholic friends and go souling. I really want a hurdy gurdy- it would be the perfect accompaniment to it! Too bad they are uber expensive. 

Soon Hee Newbold

"Epic movie soundtrack" -- that's a good way to describe it, yes.

Starts off reminding me of TLOTRing sound track. Very nice.

Congratulations for having musically talented children.

The piece has a certain soundtrack quality. It is not as elaborate as classical music, but it does sound very good. It reminds me a bit of Yanni too.

Encourage them to like and play Baroque music, if they don't do it already. It is sounds good, but it also makes you use your intelligence, specially Bach. I don't play any classical instruments, but I think that Vivaldi's music is relatively easy to play and also very pleasant. Plus, Vivaldi was a priest, which makes it kind of cool too.