What color is music, anyway?

I was educated once more about the color of music at Fort Valley State University's 67th commencement ceremony this month.

After degrees had been awarded to graduate and undergraduate students - and the celebratory noise accompanying that had subsided - it was time for the Army commissions. The officers-to-be marched down the center of the crowded gym, turned and faced students, teachers, family and friends.

Marcie Kindle, Jeremy Lewis, Jonathan Williams, Quintrina Edwards and Sophia Mudd stood at attention as the bars signifying their newly earned rank of second lieutenant were applied to their shoulders by understandably proud family members.

Then, on a musical cue, everyone in the gym spontaneously stood up and these words filled the air:

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