Pete McGrain

Pete McGrain is a professional writer/director/composer best known for the film “Ethos,” which stars Woody Harrelson. Currently living in Los Angeles, Pete hails from Dublin, Ireland, where he studied at Trinity College.

The Art of Tchaikovsky

When people think of traditional Russian music, it generally falls into two main categories: grand militaristic marching rhythms ...

Arts & Culture June 6, 2022
Franz Schubert and the Pathway to Romanticism

The story of Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was one of the most tragic in classical music. When ...

Music May 29, 2022
Requiem of Defiance

In his later years, my father joined a Welsh miners’ choir, composed of men that shared the daily ...

Music April 14, 2022
Sacramental Symphonies

I am actually still shaking. I just listened to Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony”—again—and it is simply apocalyptic! The fantastical, ...

Arts & Culture April 6, 2022
Bach: The Mark of a Genius

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and ...

Music March 8, 2022
Beethoven: Sacramental Symphonies

I am actually still shaking. I just listened to Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony"—again—and it is simply apocalyptic! The fantastical, ...

Music March 7, 2022
The Red Priest

Legend has it that composer Antonio Vivaldi was born during an earthquake. For an Italian, he was also ...

Music March 7, 2022
The Flower Duet

If there is a world’s second-most beautiful piece of music, then which is the first, and who said ...

Music March 5, 2022
Sound and Light

The Associated Press posted an article in 2007 about an Italian musician, Giovanni Pala, who believes he found ...

Lifestyle April 21, 2021
To Judge a Book by Its Cover

Perhaps it's no surprise that the hospitable Irish took in a "foreigner," a Welshman named Patrick, and made ...

Lifestyle March 22, 2021