I love my piano. Period. And though it holds its tune pretty well, there still comes the time when it’s just getting a bit squirrelly in the mid-section. I notice this mainly because I find that I don’t sit down as often to “noodle.” Well that’s no good! But now it is freshly tuned and, […]
Category: writing notes
Recently, I have enjoyed revisiting this song…feeling it in my fingers again at the piano, so to speak. And I thought to myself, “I really need to record this for Emma and Eden – to preserve it the way they hear it at home.” I mean, here’s a piece that I wrote and voiced for […]
Writing “Versa Est…”
Surprisingly, I am often asked which comes first, the text or the music. I say “surprisingly” because for me, the answer has always been clear (the clearest in my whole writing process really!), and that is: the TEXT! I suppose there must be some composers out there, many great ones in fact, that start the […]
writing “A Father”
Time really does fly! I remember writing this song when the girls were a certain age – just 4, and not even 1, respectively. This project came as a commission – to be written for a member of our church choir who had passed away. And here’s the beautiful thing for me about the creative process: […]