I've always loved the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl ever since I learned he was the drummer for Nirvana and then became the guitarist and ...

George's Rhapsody in Blue was smooth and sultry. Brash and bouncy... No one had ever heard anything like...

Cristofori spends the rest of his long life perfecting his invention, coaxing it to respond precisely to a musician's touch. He hopes...

When 19th century classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven discovered that he was going deaf, at first he despaired, for surely his life an...

This is the story of Millo Castro Zaladarriaga, a young Cuban girl who wanted desperately t...

I recently came across this review I had written before I had a blog. I honestly forgot that I had read and written about this book. But som...

Keith Richards is best known for being the guitarist in one of the most famous rock bands in the word, The Rolling Stones. As a child grow...

Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) claimed he was from Saturn. Since he was from another planet, the things of earth intrigued him, especially mu...

Ever since my interview with Natalie Lloyd where she talked about hearing a song for the first time with your heart before your ears, I hav...

Ten years ago this month my husband and I were living in Germany and took our first major trip: a weekend in Vienna. As a classical music lo...

Earlier this week as I was walking back to my car through the student center at Eastern Michigan University, my ears immediately perked up...

About the only thing that impacts me more emotionally than books is music. When you hear a song you love for the first time it can be a tran...

One day in early 1924 George Gershwin's brother Ira was reading the New York Daily when he brought to George's attention that t...

So I finally bit the bullet this summer and started writing a novel. I have no idea where this is going to take me, or whether I'll e...

For the first time in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, he can't think of a single melod...

So today I discovered that this is the official song of the 2012 London Olympics Don't get me wrong, it's a cool song. I really...

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish . Today's topic is: Top Ten Books I'd give a theme song to Since I...

I saw these guys on Rachael Ray on Friday and it is one of the coolest YouTube videos I've ever seen. Who knew you could play in a band...

... I can't remember. So today's the day the whole book-reading world gets to stay up late and finish the last installment of The Hu...

Yesterday afternoon my husband and I drove to Ann Arbor for a used piano sale. The School of Music, Dance, and Theater at the University of...