What, No Music?

Music can bring us such great joy when we choose it wisely. Whether we’re listening to the classics or movie soundtracks, ragtime or later jazz, gospel, or country and western, it can lift us out of what might otherwise be a sad or dreary day. Music does make boring, tedious … Read more…

Shropshire Music Foundation

How did a young, single, female music teacher from Los Angeles, who was planning a backpacking trip to Austria for a month, end up instead in a Kosovo Refugee Camp in 1999? In April 1999 Liz Shropshire heard an NPR report about the refugees from war-torn Kosovo who were leaving … Read more…

When Songs Get Stuck in our Heads

Ok, I’m going to date myself now. But I know some of my readers remember the fun song, Bimbo, that was first recorded by Jim Reeves, who later died in a private plane crash in 1964. I can’t quote too much of the song because “fair use” for the music … Read more…