To tell or not to tell – that was the question I had been asking myself for several weeks. Someone I was concerned about was having some...

Recently, Dr. Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, Assistant Professor of Piano and Pedagogy at Samford University here in Birmingham, stumbled on to my...

Driving home from work one night recently, Michael Jackson's song, "You Are Not Alone," comes on the radio, and almost on cue, a spider...

The Christmas song of ALL Christmas songs was never intended to be for the Yuletide season. Jingle Bells, written in 1857 by James Lord...

“I have written a pavane for a dead princess, not a dead pavane for a princess.” Ravel did not mean for this statement about his lovely,...

Music can be a powerful force. Did you know that the beloved patriotic song, “God Bless America,” was influential enough to unify even...

Kristin Kennamer had been an unhappy student in Pharmacy School at Samford University for only a short time when she decided that...

"Practice until you own the music. Practice enough so that when you make a mistake, it sounds like part of the music. You can say, 'Oh,...

Every year at graduation time, Sir Edward Elgar’s famous march called “Pomp and Circumstance” is heard at ceremonies all across the...