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Tag Archives: Music

No Muse, No Music

April 18, 2017by Madi Simpson 1 Comment

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, […]

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The Discovery of a Tune

May 26, 2016by Matthew James Gray Leave a comment

“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 […]

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The Heart of Faith

Einstein’s Concert

April 4, 2016by René Breuel Leave a comment

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 […]

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Flying Away

January 15, 2016by René Breuel 1 Comment

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 […]

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A Place to Fall Apart

October 15, 2015by ryanpaulvallee Leave a comment

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 […]

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Passion births life-long union

April 20, 2015by René Breuel Leave a comment

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 […]

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On Anything and Everything

Axis of Awesome

January 26, 2015by Matthew James Gray 4 Comments

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 […]

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On Anything and Everything

Recycled Melodies

January 1, 2015by René Breuel 4 Comments

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 […]

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A Song of Transition

December 22, 2014by René Breuel Leave a comment

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 […]

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Intrusion and Grace

October 2, 2014by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes Leave a comment

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 […]

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