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Two icons of musical genius: Mary Lou Williams sought the sacred; Marvin Gaye probed the world, the flesh and the Devil Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy L. Kernodle Northeastern University Press, April 2004, $30 ISBN 1-555-53606-9 Like many geniuses, pianist Mary Lou Williams was ahea...(Continue Reading) An Album of Trumpet Tunes for Organ. - book review compiled and edited by Dale Tucker. Warner Bros. (15800 N. W. 48th Ave., Miami, FL 33014), 1997. 118 pp., $10.95. As a trumpeter, I have played a number of trumpet tunes and voluntaries that were...(Continue Reading)Timothy Hoekman named MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year - Association News - Music Teachers National Association Timothy Hoekman has been selected as the 2002 MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year for his composition To Make a Prairie, commissioned by ......(Continue Reading)Music : A Long Way from Leipzig - Carmel Bach Festival The Carmel Bach Festival has been a Monterey Peninsula tradition since 1935. Master classes, recitals, lectures and concerts are among the activities. The 1999 festival included performances by sopran...(Continue Reading)Overalls, old timey music and a wedding blessing I went to a wedding the other day. It wasn't just any wedding by any stretch of the imagination. Besides being the wedding of my friend, Albert Culbreath, ......(Continue Reading)
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