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7 Lessons That Mothers Have Taught the Music Ministry  Tribute to Mothers In marrying a man committed to civil rights, Coretta Scott King knew that she would not live the life of a quiet minister's wife.   Coretta Scott King, 78, Soloist and Ministry of Music, Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dies  Click here: Coretta Scott King, 78, Soloist and Ministry of Music, Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dies Coretta Scott King was a singer who completed a degree in Music Education--a very popular degree path for her generation. Coretta Scott graduated from Lincoln High School, a private Black institution with an integrated faculty, and then followed her older sister Edyth to Antioch College in Ohio, where she received a B.A. in music and elementary education. An accomplished musician and singer, Scott held her concert debut in 1948 in Springfield, Ohio, performing as a soloist with the Second Baptist Church.King inherited a love of music from her mother, and at Lincoln High School she learned to play the trumpet and piano, and sang as a soloist at school recitals.   Enrolling in 1951 at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music with a grant from the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Scott developed her singing talent and eventually earned a Mus.B. in voice.   King inherited a love of music from her mother, and at Lincoln High School she learned to play the trumpet and piano, and sang as a soloist at school recitals. An intelligent and hardworking student, she did well in her schoolwork too and was at the top of her class when she graduated in 1945. She then enrolled at Antioch College, Ohio, where her sister Edythe had been the first fulltime black student to live on campus. Student in the North At Antioch College, King majored in music and education. She also took part in the college's work-study program, acting as a camp counsellor, library assistant, and nursery school attendant. The fact that she was African American was not a barrier in any of these roles, but when she began to teach as part of her education course, she suddenly found her way blocked. Ordinarily, the education students did their practice teaching in the local public schools, but these schools had no black teachers and would not accept her. Her protests fell on deaf ears, even when she appealed to the college president, and in the end she had to do her teaching at the Antioch Demonstration School. During this time, King was also a music student, learning the violin as well as studying singing and piano. She sang in the choir at the Second Baptist Church in Springfield, Ohio, and gave her first solo concert there in 1948. By the time she graduated in 1951, she had decided to become a professional singer rather than a schoolteacher and had been accepted by the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Although King had a scholarship to cover her tuition at the conservatory, it did not pay for anything else, and she barely scraped by during her first year in Boston. To pay for her bed and breakfast, she cleaned the stairwells of the house she lived in, and for supper she usually made do with peanut butter and crackers. The following year was easier, because she received state aid from Alabama, but she still had to watch every penny. While studying at the conservatory she met Martin Luther King Jr., who was also a student in Boston at the time, and they were married in 1953. The following year, after Coretta Scott King had graduated from the conservatory, they moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where Martin Luther King, Jr. began his work as a minister. Mrs. King In marrying a man committed to civil rights, King knew that she would not live the life of a quiet minister's wife.   There would not be a Music Ministry without a mother. When God wants to bless the music ministry he put a woman in its life. In addition, when God wanted to bless the world, he blessed Mary’s’ womb with Jesus.   Ironically even an escaped felon will seek the comfort of a woman. Detectives believe that escaped felons try to  find a safe place to hide. The criminal escapes jail and many times heads to his mothers or girlfriend's house for shelter. Consequently, investigating officers go to their mothers’ or girlfriend's house,   In contrast, When Satan wants to curse you he puts a woman in your life. Kate "Ma" Barker (October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935) was a legendary American criminal from the "public enemy era", when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwest gripped the American people and press. Though her children were undoubtedly criminals and their Barker-Karpis Gang committed a spree of robberies, kidnappings and other crimes between 1931 and 1935,   A mother will divert energy for worthy warfare. A son, daughter, husband, and family become a reward for a mother’s battle. Billie Holiday said “But Sadie Fagan (Billie Holiday mother) loved me from the time I was just a swift kick in the ribs while she scrubbed floors. She went to the hospital and made a deal with the head woman there. She told them she'd scrub floors and wait on the other bitches laying up there to have their kids so she could pay her way and mine.” Mother will deliver assorted children to soccer games, piano lessons, and play dates, vacuum the house, scrub the floors, take the dog to the vet…The mother will leave the nobility of home to scrub the ornamental porcelin bathroom throne of the multitudes.   A mother will open your eyes to you while feeding the multitudes. Jesus took a private lunch box made by mother to feed 5,000. A mother will prepare a private lunch while feeding the multitudes 5,000. A young boy of ten in Naples took his first voice lesson and was told by the teacher, "You can't sing. You haven't any voice at all. Your voice sounds like the wind in the shutters." The boys (Enrico Caruso) mother did not accept that evaluation. She had visions of her son being great, and though she was poor she made every sacrifice to pay for his voice lessons. She encouraged him to press on when everyone else was applying the brakes. Had it not been for this mother's ambition for her son the world would never have heard of Enrico Caruso, one of its greatest singers ever. If mothers do not have high aims for their children, who will?   Every man is listening to a woman. Emil Sauer bravura pianist, Born at Hamburg, Germany, in 1862, the same year as Rosenthal, he received his earliest musical training from his mother. And it was at her desire that he made a life study of music an abandoned that of law, for which he had originally been intended. When, at thirteen, he played to Rubinstein, that master musician expressed his opinion that the child should be trained for a professional.   Every man is listening to a woman. A courting suitor listens to his sweethearts advice the most, his wifes’ advicethe best, but his mothers advise the longest. Nearly five months to the day since his mother's death, Kanye West paid tribute to the late Donda West in a posting on his blog Wednesday, crediting her advice with giving him a new outlook on life. "If there's anything my mom taught me is to enjoy life," he wrote in the post titled "Life is Good...in Japan Picking Out Fabrics for Pastelle." "I don't do anything I don't love anymore. "While people chase money I pursue happiness," he continued. "So many people talk about [their] investments or how much money they have but there's so many rich people who spend a lot of that trying 2 buy a piece of happiness."   Mothers can understand their son/daughter like no other person. In addition mothers have the gifts of the interpretation of tongues. Mom will interpret baby babble and  baby talk…. Jusczyk and his colleagues around the world have been discovering that early speech recognition is the culmination of furious intellectual efforts that begin in the womb, where the rhythms of the mother's voice and native language are communicated to the child through the reverberations of her bones.   Mothers will delay their goals. More than 22,000 women over 40 had babies here last year, a quarter of them for the first time. And ten times as many women have their first child between 35 and 39 nowadays than in 1975, with 13 times as many between 40 and 44. The trend is typified by high-profile mothers such as Jennifer Lopez, whois pregnant at 38, Halle Berry, who is expecting at 41 and Desperate Housewives actress Marcia Cross, who had twins at 44. Professor Gregory, who is director of women's studies at the University of Houston in Texas, said: "I have found an overwhelming number and range of reasons why what I call the 'new later mothers' are absolutely right to delay motherhood. Why women who wait until their thirties ‘make better mothers’By LAURA CLARK   Stage Mothers Mothers know that their daughters success depends on relocation in order to succeed. Valerie Campbell Naomi Campbell's mother. Valerie fiercely denies being a pushy stage mother. "It was hard," admits Valerie. "But I had dreams for Naomi and dreams have to be paid for. So I danced my way around the world."  At first Naomi travelled with her mother, but later she lived with Valerie'smother, Ruby, in Streatham. "The truth is she led and I followed. She is the most driven person I know," she says.  Valerie insists: "Naomi always knew how much I loved her, that she was the most important person in my life."

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