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Heavy Metal Legend Writes a Worship Song

Tony Iommi has been hailed as the godfather of heavy metal for his role with Black Sabbath, the British group he cofounded in 1968. But the 68-year-old ...


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After Hearing Loss, Music Teacher Chants the Psalms

A beautiful article in the Chicago Tribune told the story of a woman named Rachel Long who died in 2017 at the age of 97. Based on the information in ...


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The Jazz Musician Who Had to Improvise with Disabled Hand

Unless you're a true jazz aficionado you've probably never heard of Horace Parlan who made news headlines recently (February 2017) because the ...


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Composer Wants to Express 'Love for Every Note'

For most Americans Arvo Pärt isn't exactly a household name. But the Estonian composer of classical and sacred music has won numerous international ...


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Mozart Worked Hard to Be Creative

In 1815, Germany's General Music Journal published a letter in which allegedly Mozart described his creative process:

When I am, as it were, completely ...

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Atheist Drawn By the Beauty of Bach's Music

In a 2015 interview, the Hungarian composer György Kurtág made a remarkable confession about his struggle to reconcile his atheism with the ...


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Bruce Springsteen Talks About His Father

In a 2012 interview with The New Yorker, rock legend Bruce Springsteen said that his broken relationship with his father lives on in his songs. For example, ...


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The Important Relationship Between Music and Memory

Most of us would agree that singing worship songs in our gatherings is important. But do we realize just how important those songs are to our growth as ...


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Master Violinist Goes Unrecognized

Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish ...


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Arthur Rubenstein Linked Attitude to Ability

"You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you."

—Concert pianist Arthur Rubenstein (1887–1982)


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