As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I think we should explore exactly how delegates from 13 colonies with diverging viewpoints managed to agree on the wording of a very controversial...
Elvis loved his songs and called him "the mad professor." But Ben Weisman was actually a very astute musician who composed many of the songs Elvis sang in his movies. It's just that dressed in a sports coat and tie, wit...
What do the states of Alabama, Georgia, Texas and California have in common? They are among only 10 states left that do not permit online sports betting. The others are Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Oklahoma, South Carolina and...
I wrote last time about Irwin Kostal and the important behind-the-scenes job of an orchestrator. As I said then, it is the job of orchestrators to assign the musical notes written by the composer to specific instruments....
When a song sounds great, composers tend to get all the credit. But that is only justified when the composer acts as orchestrator as well. Because the orchestration is what turns a collection of notes played on a piano o...
