Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer

It strikes me that the world at large would just as soon pretend that the COVID 19 pandemic never happened – and people resist remembering the trauma of those years. Not me. As hospitals flooded with the sick, I sat at home writing music, my thoughts flooded with awareness of the pain of loss everywhere, death reaching out in every direction, all around the world. At the time...

An insomniac, I often spend much of the night listening to music. In order not to disturb my wife, I put ear pods on and spend hours lying in the dark listening. Lately, I have discovered the pleasure of using a one-word search term on Apple Classical – the word “complete.” Not so very long ago, recordings were limited in their duration by the media they were recorded on – LP...

Classical music podcaster Leah Roseman and I had a long conversation sometime in September, which is now out on her podcast channel and on YouTube. For any interested in me going on and on about my favorite subject – music – sharing a link. We talk about a range of subjects – composing, music theory, my bifurcated life both inside and outside of the music world, and other sun...

I have given this subject a great deal of thought – but recognize the disparity between what I do and what I really believe. The motto I have on my music website and business cards is “Music can change the world | beauty, harmony, peace.” And I often find myself repeating Lenny Bernstein’s famous quote “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more be...

I have given this subject a great deal of thought – but recognize the disparity between what I do and what I really believe. The motto I have on my music website and business cards is “Music can change the world | beauty, harmony, peace.” And I often find myself repeating Lenny Bernstein’s famous quote “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more be...