Month: September 2010

I must admit that Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) is not one of those composers I go around mentioning or hear brought up in conversation much. In fact, the name didn’t even sound familiar when I first started researching this piece. However, his ‘Piano Trio in G minor” is familiar, and the story of it’s inception is…

I’m sure you’ve had those ah-ha moments when listening to songs and finally really “hearing” the lyrics. This happened to me this week as I had the children’s music writer/singer Justin Roberts on. On one of the slower songs on his album “Meltdown” (2006) I suddenly heard words that I realized were talking about dying.…