Three years ago, on a cool and cloudy day in Irvine, California, I accompanied McDoc, then a fourth year medical student, to his Match Day Ceremony. Every year on the third Thursday of March, soon-to-be MDs across the country find out where they’ll be...

No, I haven’t bought a hybrid or installed solar panels… I’m a very conscientious recycler, though! What I mean to say is… Happy St. Patrick’s Day, music nerds! McDoc and I both have plenty of Irish in our backgrounds (Scots-Irish, to be precise,...

DST sends MMN to the fainting couch! Happy Monday, music nerds — as happy as the Monday after “Springing Forward” can be, that is! I know I’m not the only one who gets thrown off-kilter by it. Sample comments from Facebook and Twitter today: “The...

Happy International Women’s Day, music nerds! As luck would have it, I have an outstanding woman to introduce to you today! Gail Archer is a very busy concert organist and dedicated teacher with an impressive list of projects to her credit, including...

Every so often, someone will ask me who my favorite composer is, and I always answer that it’s impossible to narrow it down to just one, because there are so many I love. But I can say that Frédéric Chopin has long been my favorite composer of piano...