Prokofiev: The Love of Three Oranges (SSS 2014.42)
Here’s a piece that I know very little about, aside from the title. It must have come up in a music history class at one point, because my wife and…
Here’s a piece that I know very little about, aside from the title. It must have come up in a music history class at one point, because my wife and…
This week’s piece is Edvard Grieg’s tribute to the Danish -Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, composed in 1884 for the 200th anniversary of his birth. From Holberg’s Time was originally written as…
This article appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Worship, Music & Ministry, the journal of the United Church of Christ Musicians Association. It was my first published article. Introduction…
This is a piece that I uncovered for myself while browsing through some online concerts by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It should be fun to learn some more Rachmaninov.
This week, I’m sticking with the Italy theme with Ottorino Respighi’s Roman Festivals.
I remember parts of it like it was yesterday. But it wasn’t. It was thirteen years ago tonight when my wife and I spoke our wedding vows and began this…
This week, I considered trying a tie-in to real life, searching for a piece that would be appropriate for my anniversary week. Nothing about weddings or anniversaries sprang to mind,…