The Greek word ekklesia means a coming-together, a political gathering in their original usage, later coming to mean a spiritual gathering to the early Christians that soon also came to include the body of the church. All gatherings move in storytime: the beginning, which is the coming together, the togetherness itself, and the going-away, the end of the gathering. One of the most important things about story—and about any and every coming-together—is that the world is forever changed by each one. The Universe is the sum total of all the stories that have come before. There is no better example, in our view, than the performance of music, which is always a coming-together. Indeed, music that is done only by the individual we call practice; the minimum for music is at least one player and one listener. When we make music, we become part of a whole that is greater than ourselves, and when we’re done, when the final measure has been played, we leave richer than when we began.