Tunes on Tuesday: Breathing In Time
Why this tune? This week’s song is the third iteration of “Breathing In Time,” which I wrote first on January 19 this year during my song-a-day challenge. I added a bridge for this recording and made some small edits to the rest of the lyrics. The song is my way of sending warm thoughts to…
Tunes on Tuesday: The Muse Knows
Why this tune? This week’s song is another example of revisiting and rewriting. I wrote the first version of “The Muse Knows” in 2021. I wasn’t very happy with it after I wrote it, and tried afew times to revise it in the years since. I took another look this January, and this time rewrote…
Tunes on Tuesday: The Smile In Your Eyes
Why this tune? I had a very successful January song-a-day challenge, completing 28 songs in the 31 days (I took a few days off because of ill health). Now I’m starting the longer process of revisiting and revising the songs I wrote last month, in hopes of extracting and polishing some gems I can use…
Tunes on Tuesday: Damn the Budget
Why this tune? This week’s tune is another daily project in the January song-a-day challenge organized by Kat and Sarah from Songwriting For Music Educators. The inspiration came from a conversation with friends, where several people endorsed the idea of saying “Damn the budget!” occasionally to splurge on a special event or purchase. I couldn’t…
Tunes on Tuesday: Ready To Change
Why this tune? This week’s tune is another daily project in the January song-a-day challenge organized by Kat and Sarah from Songwriting For Music Educators. After years as a technology developer and manager, I learned that everyone wants to change, but nobody wants to do anything different. That remained just a grumble until my wife…
Tunes on Tuesday: Pay the Band
Why this tune? This week’s tune is another daily project in the January song-a-day challenge organized by Kat and Sarah from Songwriting For Music Educators. This is a revised and extended version of “Pay the Band,” which I wrote first in 2024. It’s another in my Torah Tunes series, inspired in this case by a…
Tunes on Tuesday: On the 10:17
Why this tune? For the third year in a row, I’m taking a January song-a-day challenge organized by Kat and Sarah from Songwriting For Music Educators, which offers courses and resources for music educators who want to include songwriting in their work. I’m also taking a couple of online lyric writing workshops. I wrote today’s…
Tunes on Tuesday: Let’s Resolve (2026)
Why this tune? For Tunes on Tuesday this week, I went back to the New Year’s song I wrote originally at the end of 2022, making some changes to the lyrics to clean up the rhymes and make it a bit easier to sing. By “clean up” I mean trying to ensure that all of…
Tunes on Tuesday: Curious Weather
Why this tune? This week’s tune started in a lyric writing class with Marcy Heisler, an award-winning writer and performer. She and her writing partner Zina Goldrich are responsible for many musical theater and cabaret works including “Taylor, The Latte Boy,” which you’re likely to hear at cabaret revues across the country. We all came…
Tunes on Tuesday: Just the Two of Us
Why this tune? This week’s tune is the product of a dream team of musical talent that crafted a #2 hit single and a standard of the R&B repertoire. “Just the Two of Us” was written by Bill Withers, William Salter, and Ralph MacDonald, and recorded by Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers for Washington’s…
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Oren Levine, jazz pianist and songwriter 