Composer & Musician Biographies

Music Critic Curates Biography of Great American Singer Songwriter John Prine

Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine is the next best thing for dedicated fans and curious music lovers to experience the impossible: sitting down to an intimate conversation with one of the Kings of American Roots Music. We are told that reportedly John Prine flat-out hated interviews,…

Linda HitchcockNovember 28, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Intimate Portrait of a French Musician’s Legacy Told Through Four Decades of Letters

“To measure the potency of Boulanger’s influence is impossible. As a tree is rooted firmly to the earth, she was rooted in the history and grammar of Western music.” — Don Campbell, music critic and former Boulanger student She might not be known in the common household, but Nadia Boulanger…

Katie BloomerOctober 16, 2023

Miscellany Pop Culture

What Tina Turner Meant to the Woman Who Wrote Her Hits

Holly Knight, a close friend of Tina Turner and the writer of several of her hit songs, shares some personal words and a memorial video in the wake of the loss of the Queen of Rock and Roll. Holly Knight co-wrote nine songs for Tina Turner:(Simply) The BestBetter Be Good…

Holly KnightMay 30, 2023

Fiction

“Maestro: Songteller of Savannah Valley” Conducts a Symphony of Inspiration

Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator Mark Victor Hansen launched the release of six novels about residents of Savannah Valley, an upscale retirement community outside Savannah, Georgia. Hansen wants the Savannah Valley series “to reflect the enormous possibilities” for people over 50. The characters celebrate a lifetime of experiences and…

K.L. RomoNovember 17, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

Samuel Antek — first violinist with the famed NBC Symphony Orchestra for 17 years — captures what it was like to perform under Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who many consider to be the greatest conductor of the mid-20th century. In This Was Toscanini, his musical memoir published in 1963, Antek shared…

K.L. RomoAugust 17, 2021

Composer & Musician Biographies

Intimate Portrait of a French Musician’s Legacy Told Through Four Decades of Letters

What Tina Turner Meant to the Woman Who Wrote Her Hits

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

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