Tag: Music

• Bring Him Home

  Do you remember the first time you heard a song? The song that each and every time afterwards… The question…and my answer… That night I had the TV all to myself. The children were asleep. She was asleep. I wasn’t going to disturb her that night. Just dust out on the couch till morning. I […]

  Andrew Whalan

  August 16, 2018

  Experience, Personal

  Music, personal

• Celine Dion’s Lyricist

  Music. My pager beeps. Must be seven o’clock again. Third time this week. I stride through the dining room. I brush past the pianist. Her head is bowed, brows knitted, fingers melting into the keyboard. She doesn’t look up. The first notes of “My Heart Will Go On” fill the room. If only the Titanic […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 21, 2018

  Stories

  Celine dion, Music, short stories

• The One to One Concert

  You said you could only finger one chord, I (poet that I am) could only find one word. You never had an attentive audience before. Nor me as we listen as one for each other’s encore. You lift, heft and settle the guitar. Pluck one note that echoes then journeys afar. You play chords and […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 11, 2018

  Poetry

  Concert, Love, Music, Poetry