I was sitting with my fellow singers in our church choir, listening to our director rehearse his TEDx talk he would be delivering soon at the University of Arizona. He is a professor of music there. He and another person do a podcast called Lifetimes of Listening. He’s a musician. Music is a huge part […]
I have observed that a lot of people are attracted to certain popular songs by either the music or the lyrics. Some clearly make their judgments based on how much the music pleases them while others look to the lyrics to decide if they like the song. I see no reason to reject a song […]
Our lives are in some ways like a long series of novels or television shows that revolve around a few enduring characters and a greater number of interchanging ones as we move from one stage of life to another. We glide or trudge or plow along through the various phases with music playing in the […]
There have been some outstanding songs based on the lives of people in history as well as some who currently are among us. I’ve found there are more being written than I even care to hear about. Here we’re going to look at and listen in our heads to ten well-known tunes about people that […]