Posts with the category “music-notes”

Do you ever wonder why music sounds the way it does?On the surface, it's a funny thought experiment. But why, for example, do we have . . . say . . . orchestras? String quartets? Jazz or rock bands? O...  Read More

The trajectory from darkness to light is a philosophical throughline of music history. Out of murkiness, turbulence, and minor key emerges the iconic "Ode to Joy" in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. From t...  Read More

When is it appropriate to start celebrating Christmas?Are you one of the no-Christmas-till-after-Thanksgiving people? A casual, put-up-the-tree-the-week-before person? Or do you get excited to see San...  Read More

"That is one sparkly shirt... and some really tight, leather pants!" I thought as the bandleader joined us on stage of the Ocean City, NJ Music Pier on New Year's Eve, 2002. TV cameras were rolling, a...  Read More

"I'm thankful for video games."Were you a guest at the Brown Family Thanksgiving dinner table, you would be surprised and somewhat disenchanted to hear this inevitable, annual, and astoundingly trivia...  Read More

A lot of us are feeling broken right now. Broken by the dominance of fear and hatred in our country. By despair in the face of malevolent promises reinforced by a selfish few beneficiaries in power. B...  Read More

Now that I have your attention with this confusing picture of me holding the wrong instrument:Please join us to sing in the Multigenerational Choir at our first rehearsal this Sunday after the service...  Read More