Author: glenn

What is it about music anyway? I often wonder about that. It seems that every culture has some form of music, some primitive, some very developed. Moreover, every culture uses music for important occasions like weddings and funerals. Why? And why does music have the ability to move us to deep emotion? It is just… Continue reading Music

Copyright © 2003, Glenn Story This past Sunday was Easter.  This is the first year my kids didn’t get some Cadbury eggs.  Chalk it up to a bad economy and the fact that they’re growing up.  Still, it is the end of an era. In case you don’t know, Cadbury eggs are a chocolate covered… Continue reading Cadbury Eggs and Capitalism

Copyright © 2003, Glenn Story Piano Lessons Japanese Musi Shakuhachi Nutcracker Piano Lessons When I was three years old my mother had a friend who was a piano teacher. We would go to visit her on occasion and I would sit at the piano and “bang” on it–playing random notes and pretending I was really… Continue reading Me and Music

Greenmeadow is the neighborhood I live in.  I wrote this article about the history of Greenmeadow for the original Greenmeadow web site.

this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of `vapours. — Shakespeare, Hamlet