The title track of Don McLean’s breakthrough 1971 album American Pie was written as a tribute to the three early rock ‘n’ roll stars killed in a tragic 1959 plane crash: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson Jr.). The plane crash is now widely know...
Those are five of the most difficult violin pieces ever written. The technical difficulty is as hard as it gets in these five pieces, and most violinists have trouble learning this music. The professionals may make it look easy, but they have thousands of hours of practice under their belts...
it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cause this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know?"
Daughter, Find Your Purpose: A short story.I haven't written much this past month or so, but I've always found a writing challenge to be a good motivator to get me back in the writing habit. The "Ask Yourself Empowering Questions" writer's challenge has done just that, and I have b...
Dante Alighieri, 1265 – 1321, is considered the most influential writer or poet of the early Renaissance. He wrote an epic poem in the nascent Italian language, the Divine Comedy, which essentially put literature back on the map. He wrote the first great book since the fall of the Roman ...
' I said, 'No, wrong.' And then every time I go back to America the story gets Chinese whispers, it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cause this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you...
trying to describe a beautiful sunset. You think that the words "melting in the distance" or "dropping quietly against the sea" would be a good way ___ it. You have to decide if either the first phrase or the second phrase would be better. Would you like ___ a poem? Go ahead. I...
This extraordinary dichotomy that Pascal and Shakespeare have written about is what the human condition really is. We humans embody this extreme ‘contradiction’ of being the most brilliantly clever of creatures, the ones who are ‘god’-‘like’ in our ‘infinite’ ‘faculty’ of ‘reason’ ...
The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met by Emily Dickinson - The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met Embarked upon a twig today And till Dominion set I famish to behold so em
“Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a page of light. ““From a sensitive woman’s heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind’s affection.”“When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman […] ...