Why this tune? This week’s tune is another collaboration I posted to the FAWM 50/90 community (fawm.org), which closed on October 1. My new songwriting friends David Graham and Vaughan Ray Daniel sent me lyrics for “Hallmark Movie Marathon,” and I took up the challenge of writing a Hallmark-movie worthy pop song around their gentleContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Hallmark Movie Marathon”
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Tunes on Tuesday: I-66
Why this tune? I first thought about updating the Bobby Troup classic “Route 66” for the infamous Northern Virginia Interstate 66 soon after I moved back to the area in 2010, but didn’t get around to it until last week. It was only last week, on a drive back to DC on I-66 from aContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: I-66”
Tunes on Tuesday: Strange Fire
Why this tune? This week’s tune is another addition to my evolving “Parsha Songs” project, a collection of songs inspired by each of the 54 weekly Torah portions in the Jewish tradition. The title comes from Leviticus 10:1 in Parashat Shemini, describing how two sons of Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, brought to the sacrificial altarContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Strange Fire”
Tunes on Tuesday: Haunted (not Haunted)
Why this tune? This week’s tune is another one I wrote during this year’s FAWM 50/90, kicked off by aprompt: “haunted.” I want to dive into some of the process I followed to turn that prompt into this song. I started as I usually do by just writing, anything, in a stream of consciousness toContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Haunted (not Haunted)”
Tunes on Tuesday: Big Knife Creek
Why this tune? As I’ve mentioned before, I’m participating in the “50/90” songwriting community atfawm.org. It’s a global forum for songwriters that opens twice a year to a global community of writers who share songs and discussion. The site hosts regular “skirmishes,” where ahost picks a theme and participants try to write a song basedContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Big Knife Creek”
Tunes on Tuesday: What About Us
Why this tune? This week’s tune is the second song I completed based on the weekly Torah portions (parashot) that are part of the Jewish tradition. The song tells the story from Numbers 27(Parashat Pinchas) about the five daughers of Zelophehad … who successfully argued for the right of women to inherit property if thereContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: What About Us”
Tunes on Tuesday: On All Other Nights (Passover 2023)
Why this tune? Passover starts this week on Wednesday night (April 5, 2023), this year mostly free from the shadow of the pandemic. I wrote “On All Other Nights” before the holiday in 2020, when those of us celebrating had to change our in-person plans. I was delighted that Julie Mack agreed to record theContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: On All Other Nights (Passover 2023)”
Tunes On Tuesday: 45 Seconds
Why this tune? I just updated the Original Music page on this site, adding audio and video clips plus charts for a bunch of songs I’ve written recent. While editing the page I saw a short song I recorded eight years ago that I refreshed for Tunes On Tuesday. “45 Seconds” was the musical responseContinue reading “Tunes On Tuesday: 45 Seconds”
Tunes on Tuesday: Powerful Questions
Why this tune? You may not think of software development as musical, but it inspired this week’s song. I took a course recently on Agile Coaching, learning how to help software teams use Agile processes to work more effectively. One of the many coaching tools we learned was the use of “powerful questions.” These areContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Powerful Questions”
Tunes on Tuesday: Pelican Cove
Why this tune? Here’s another song from this year’s 50/90 project, inspired by another morning walk around the Pelican Cove Condos on St. Croix. I saw the sign for the condos as I returned and remembered that I had seen an actual pelican off the beach a few months before. The phrase “I saw aContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Pelican Cove”
Oren Levine, jazz pianist and songwriter 