Music

Beat Fashion Survives Trend City

When I was but a dorky, hormonally and socially-challenged teenager, my parents moved from one white suburban enclave to another - thus nullifying the...

Favorite Lounge Singers, Part Two

I’m a sap for lounge crooners singing their hearts out on torch songs in dark dives. There is something magical about mulling over your...

Favorite Lounge Singers – Part One

I’m a sap for lounge crooners singing their hearts out on torch songs in dark dives. There is something magical about mulling over your...

The Making of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” by Tim Burton

The Goth-Holiday fairy tale we didn’t know we needed. The spooky spark. How it all began. Ok, “The Nightmare Before Christmas” started as a...

Celtic Christmas Traditions and Songs

Old Celtic Christmas traditions of the English, Irish, Welch, and Scottish are also popular in other English speaking countries such as the U.S., Canada,...

Favorite Chopin Nocturnes

I love to listen to Frederic Chopin’s Nocturnes, wonderful pieces of music that are sometimes tender with innocent charm and other times dramatic, striking,...

Hamilton the Musical that Inspired a New Generation

So, Lin-Manuel took history and turned it into a hip-hop opera of pure genius. Recasting the Founding Fathers with performers? Throw in bars that...

Halloween Classical Music – Part Two

Night On Bald Mountain A demon orchestrates dancing ghosts at the Witch’s Sabbath on Bald Mountain. Dramatic music by Modest Mussorgsky (18939- 1881). It was...

Halloween Classical Music – Part One

Spice up your Halloween party or your Trick or Treat decorations with fun and spooky classical Halloween music. The Vampire Masquerade Count Dracula’s vampire masquerade...

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