Loretta Pritchard
My Halloween Trick & Treat
Wear your Charlie Brown Halloween shirt today, is what my little voice told me this morning as I woke from not the best night's sleep due...
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Loretta Pritchard
Oct 17, 20201 min read
Mornings with Kenny Dean
It started out a few years ago as a call to get the morning obituaries, but the truth of the matter is, it was more about getting to talk wi
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Loretta Pritchard
Aug 13, 20205 min read
Imagine: Concerning Nadia Boulanger - My Interview with Eleanor Trafton
Imagine that you are a young composer in your early twenties, studying composition with a world- renowned composition teacher, who happens
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Loretta Pritchard
Jun 5, 20203 min read
What Is It Like to Take Piano Lessons?
What is it like to take piano lessons? It is a whole new world! A world filled with a variety of things . . . excitement, adventure, enterta
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Loretta Pritchard
Oct 25, 20192 min read
To Tell or Not To Tell - Waiting On God's Timing
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Jul 30, 20194 min read
Your PLATElets Matter!
In recent months, doctors discovered, through various blood tests, that my father's blood platelets were extremely high. How high, you...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 24, 20198 min read
When the Planets Line Up
Recently, Dr. Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, Assistant Professor of Piano and Pedagogy at Samford University here in Birmingham, stumbled on to my...
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Loretta Pritchard
Apr 16, 20194 min read
Awrecknophobia
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...
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Loretta Pritchard
Feb 18, 20195 min read
A Close Call: When Lightening Struck
I lay awake in bed in the darkness of the night, listening to the sound of the thunderstorm that had just begun. I lay there listening...
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Loretta Pritchard
Jan 19, 20192 min read
Comforted by GOD ("Dog" Spelled Backwards)
“Another bad day,” I thought to myself as I drug my frail body out of bed on a gloomy Sunday morning. I had had nothing but bad days for...
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Loretta Pritchard
Dec 12, 20182 min read
All About "Jingle Bells"
The Christmas song of ALL Christmas songs was never intended to be for the Yuletide season. Jingle Bells, written in 1857 by James Lord...
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Loretta Pritchard
Oct 25, 20182 min read
Ravel's "Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte" (Pavane for a Dead Princess) It’s Not What Y
“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,...
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Loretta Pritchard
Sep 11, 20184 min read
On the Subject of Pride: He's Still Working On Me
Do any of you struggle with PRIDE? If you had asked me 20 years ago if I had a problem with pride, I would have said, "No! Of course...
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Aug 25, 20182 min read
The History of Henry Floyd Freeman
Henry Floyd Freeman was my Great Great Grandfather on my Mother's side. His family was one of the first to settle in Tallapoosa County...
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Loretta Pritchard
Aug 6, 20182 min read
A Dog Day in Summer
To protect the innocent, I will keep certain details of this little incident discreet. It was a hot summer day as I walked into a very...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 22, 20183 min read
The Power of Music: The Story Behind "God Bless America"
Music can be a powerful force. Did you know that the beloved patriotic song, “God Bless America,” was influential enough to unify even...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 16, 20182 min read
God Is Good
Working with the public as I do at Ellis Piano, customers come in quite often and tell me all kinds of things about issues they are...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 16, 20182 min read
The Power of Music: How a Piano Saved A Pharmacist
Kristin Kennamer had been an unhappy student in Pharmacy School at Samford University for only a short time when she decided that...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 15, 20182 min read
It Takes Practice!
"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,...
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Loretta Pritchard
May 10, 20182 min read
A Time for Pomp and Circumstance
Every year at graduation time, Sir Edward Elgar’s famous march called “Pomp and Circumstance” is heard at ceremonies all across the...
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