I have been wanting to tell this story for a while....As a shy, unconfident teenager, I was slowly finding my way in life, and, as a drummer, had found a…

The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Phillip SousaI grew up the youngest of 4 children in Mt. Lebanon, PA. Mt. Lebo High School had a terrific football…

When I was growing up in the Sixties, my parents permitted only classical music in the house, which meant that I had to listen to pop music at friends’…

I was a student at York High School in York, Maine from 1998 – 2001. At this time, our HS auditorium left much to be desired – small, outdated, drab. BUT…

Last Kiss - the cover by Pearl JamBy Melanie BrooksWhen I was a child in the late 1970s and early 1980s, my father used to sing to me at night to help me…

Music that Moves Me: "I Can See Clearly Now," by Johnny NashMy mother had hundreds of record albums when I was growing up in Alabama and one of her…

Brahms Requiem and Robert ShawDuring my first year of medical school, Robert Shaw was hired as Associate Conductor under George Szell and immediately…

MP was 50, and I was 19. He hired me in Sarasota, Florida for $2 an hour to help him organize his architecture, construction, and interior design office.…

My parents married at the tail end of the hippie movement. They met at IBM in N.Y. but left and traveled across the country to California in a green bus.…

The year was 1983. I was 19 years old and just before college doing a "Semester in The Rockies," with a an Outdoor School. At the end of a caving…