No Muse, No Music
I come from a musical family. My grandmother was a concert pianist, my mother plays piano by ear, my sisters are professional standard musicians. One of my brothers plays guitar, […]
Tag Archives: Music
The Discovery of a Tune
“Play me a tune.” Sometimes a new song comes on the radio, and we get a kind of deja vu, as if we have always known the song, even if […]
Einstein’s Concert
Yehudi Menuhin started at the violin at a young age. Regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest violin performers, he was already playing with the San Francisco Symphony at the […]
Flying Away
A few summers ago, there was this song you could hear everywhere. On the radio, at the beauty salon, at the supermarket. It was one of Nelly Furtado’s earliest hits, I’m […]
A Place to Fall Apart
When country music legend Merle Haggard composed “A Place to Fall Apart” it was an instant hit. As the story goes, while struggling through a marriage breakup Merle wrote a […]
Passion births life-long union
There is a song which has been following me lately. Everywhere I go it is playing – at the coffee shop, the radio throughout the day – and it is […]
Axis of Awesome
When you’re tubing the YouTube, you may have have come across the “Four Chord Song” by the Australian comedy trio, the Axis of Awesome. In the song, they reveal that […]
Recycled Melodies
A viral video caught my eye and my heart this month. It shows a slum community who lives next to a landfill in Paraguay where people came to recycle the […]
A Song of Transition
I’ve always been intrigued by some movies’ ability to take us along a character’s journey. A man encounters a woman and they mock and despise one another, until at a […]
Intrusion and Grace
Recently U2 released its new album Songs of Innocence to everyone who uses iTunes. It was free, automatic, a gift. While there is much to say about this deeply personal […]
