Peter Spitzer Music Blog

"Joy to the Person of My Love"   A few days ago, while listening to the “All Classical” internet radio station, I heard this piece...

It was my privilege, and my good luck, to have played in a Bay Area big band, the Johnny Lampson Orchestra, from around 1978 until 2010. It...

Once upon a time, way back in the 1970s, before the Real Book, before the Omnibook, and even before the internet, I was a music major in Por...

  As of January 1, 2026, U.S. copyright will expire for works published in 1930, including the following songs: Beyond the Blue Horizon Body...