Music in Life

MUSIC in LIFE Recently, while sorting through some boxes, I discovered a notebook containing a program about music in American life I helped two of my children put together many years ago for an event about nineteenth century America. Music is woven into the fabric of...

Remembering 9-11

  It was a sunny, blue-sky, late summer morning. An ordinary day, September 11, 2001. I’d watched the news and weather on TV earlier, but I was now into my daily routine at home. My husband’s nephew had called to say his wife was in labor, so my husband, who was a...

“Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset, Swiftly fly the years. One season following another, Laden with happiness and tears.” (from Fiddler on the Roof, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)   The year I turned fifty, I became a grandmother. This year, my husband and...