Songwriting

In the director’s notes at Tuesday night’s choral, conductor Naicee Sutter wrote about the composer Benjamin Britten. He penned two of the pieces on a voyage to England aboard a Swedish freighter.

How does one create music in their mind? The musical scale has always been a foreign language to me.

Music is rooted in the earliest traditions of storytelling and communication. Sometimes called the “universal language,” it began as chants by early civilization and transposed into today’s chart-topping hits. Songs have been used to preserve history, celebrate rituals and convey moral lessons. Many a...