WORD & MUSIC

Music 101

Today I want to talk about my introduction to music and get you to think about yours.

“Old Dogs”

  Old dogs I sit by the creek and throw sticks For the old great-hearted golden retriever He splashes through the water Like the puppy he was Up onto the opposite bank To fetch each one But he brings it back only partway (He has done this before) And drops it onto the ground out […]

The Pier, the Birds and the Moment

An evocative piece appeared in the long-running blog, Time Goes By.

Third Cousins

I like a good story-poem, always have.

Rediscovering Songs of our Youth: “Spring is Here”

Mike Schiffer, a fabulous jazz pianist and teacher now in his late 80s, remembers one of his first love affairs with a song, “Spring is Here.” Spring Is Here was first introduced by Dennis King and Vivienne Segal in the 1938 Broadway Musical, I Married An Angel, and sung by Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy […]