Archived Articles

• We Read - Musical Murder Mysteries by Alexia Gordon Fall 2024.pdf
• We Read and Watch - A Man Called Uncle Fall 2024.pdf
• We Read First Learn to Practice by Heany Summer 2024.pdf
• We Read Earths Wild Music Winter 2023.pdf
  
• We Read Composers Their Lives and Works Winter 2023.pdf
  
• We Read Music Inspired by Womens Poetry June 2023.pdf
  
• Be sure to see the June/July issue to read about Oregon Symphony Storytime reading I am Enough, accompanied by the extraordinary composer, flutist, vocalist Nathalie Joachim who is a creative partner with the OSO. There are links there to listen to the recording and learn more about Nathalie.
• We Read Cremona Mysteries Series February 2023.pdf
  
• We Read Another Year of Wonder December 2022.pdf, 2022, by Clemency Burton-Hill, reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, December, 2022.
• We Read Yoga for Musicians October 2022.pdf -Musician's Yoga: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Inspiration, 2009. Written by Mia Olson. Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, October, 2022
• We Read Piano Shop Left Bank August 2022.pdf - The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart. Fiction. Reviewed by Sue Bonfeld.
• We Read Ways of Hearing April 2022.pdf - Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.Edited by Scott Burnham, Marna Seltzer, Dorothea Von Moltke, 2021. Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti April 2022.
• We Read Feb 2022.pdf - The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten. Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti. Feb. 2022
• A Subversive History of Music (2021) by Ted Gioia, author of the famed History of Jazz. Even if you think you have had enough of music history or just don’t prefer to give it much thought, this book may still be for you. Highly recommend it for your 2022 reading list. It is the kind of book you can keep on your “reading table” and pick-up now and then. Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti
• Four Reviews - Letters of Note, Music, by Shaun Usher; The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow, by Jackie Morris; Wild Symphony, a children's book by Dan Brown; and, Change Sings, a children's book by Amanda Gorman. Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti.
• Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music, by Anna Beer, 2016, reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, August, 2021
• Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day, 2018, by Clemency Burton-Hill, reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, Winter, 2019 from archives for Spring 2020 issue.
• Jazz Fly by Matthew Gollub, 2000, and La’s Orchestra Saves the World, 2008, by Alexander McCall Smith, and The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, 2019, by Kirk Wallace Johnson, Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, Winter, 2020.
• Love Flute by Paul Goble, 1992, I Live in Music poem by Ntozake Shange and Paintings by Romare Bearden, and It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music, 2016 by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 2016, Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, Fall, 2020.
• Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen, 2012, by Mary Sharratt, Reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, Summer, 2020.

• Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day, 2018, by Clemency Burton-Hill, reviewed by BJ Nicoletti, Winter, 2019.