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Of the many musical compositions written about April, perhaps the most universally known is “Here Comes the Sun” by George Harrison of the…

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total Sky almost without defect,And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,Will like the…

I love the sound of an orchestra warming up.The cacophony is hardly musical, but if you listen, you can hear what’s coming.Fragments of melody float from…

In countless musicals, romance seems to develop when the male and female leads join in a duet, which often evolves into a dance.And the pair bond is…

In my grade school music classes, we spent the month of March singing folk songs about St. Patrick.I still remember most of the lyrics and the legends.In…

If a soothsayer bids you, "Beware the Ides of March," perhaps you should heed the warning.In the Roman calendar, the "ides" was the middle day.Remember…

When this radio station was in its infancy, it aired a program called, if memory serves, "Eco-logue."Jack Hood, who then was the ecology teacher at…

During summer, it is easy to overlook beech trees.But this time of year, when leaves are gone from mature beech and almost all other deciduous trees, the…

In his first book of Preludes, Claude Debussy wrote a melancholy piece, which in English is called "Footprints in the Snow."Clearly, he intended to…

It seems early, but on one of our rare sunny days, I heard a chickadee sing his two-note mating call.The courtship season for birds will soon be…