An article on the BBC news website describes the process by which experts have affirmed the authenticity of a violin that was played by the bandleader of the Titanic.

As I thought about the eerie irony of an orchestra playing during the 1912 tragedy at sea that took the lives of 1500 people, the biblical story of David playing his shepherd’s harp to soothe a deranged King came to mind (1Sam 16:23).

So did questions. Are both examples of music being used to unrealistically deny a disaster in the making? Or could  both be read as tender examples of mercy.

What about us? Living in a world that has become  globally interdependent, haunted by terrorism, limited resources, and a fragile if not sinking economy, will the music and entertainment that calms us– eventually be seen as a mercy or mark of our madness?

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