text: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:02 AM EDT
  Try to imagine the world without music - no lullabies, no happy birthday song, no wedding march, no singing-along to your car radio.
  A group of people believes in the power of music, and encourages students to start as young as three-years-old.
  Today as teenagers, they play ''Hungarian Dance Number Five'', but they all started as young children, playing variations on ''Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'' as part of University of Northern Iowa's Suzuki School.
  "I just begged my parents, please please can I?" violinist Joni Griffith said.
  "I kept telling my parents I need to play violin and they thought it was just one of those things where I start and quit. For two years I begged them to play, so from age 6 to 8," said Suzuki violinist Raquel Williams.
  "There's something about being part of a group," said violinist Joni Griffith.
  "Try to imagine life without music, you can't. You couldn't watch a movie without music. You couldn't watch a commercial without music," Craig said.
  As this Suzuki group of 175 students, ages three to 18, and parents, too, get ready for their spring recital, the sentiment is the same: "Life without music would be really difficult," Elizabeth Bailey said.