Thomas J. West Music

And you thought your high school marching band was disciplined!

The Firecrackers are a performance jump rope team made up of talented 4th-8th graders from the Kings Local School District in Ohio.

The Firecrackers grew out of an elementary school physical education exposition. Coach Lynn Kelly was loo...

It's been a while since I've added a video to my "Great Performances" series. I saw this video shortly after it came out a year ago, but neglected to add it to my video page until now. Bobby McFerrin is one of my musical heroes, and here he demonstrates how every person has innate musical intelligence that our society stamps out of them.The pentatonic scale is indigenous to ...

Every once in a while, a piece of art finds its way in front of you that just strikes you to the core. Today is one of those days for me.

While working at my desk, I was listening to recordings from one of my favorite contemporary composers, Eric Whitacre. He made a big splash recently with his

Well, it took almost two weeks, but my review of Peter Buffett's unique concert/conversation is finally completed. I must say, it was a challenge to come up with the summary comments. "Unique" really is the best description of this concert. Parts of it resonated with me, though not nearly as much as I expected it to. Parts of it were very noble and touchin...

The live blog coverage for this event has been moved to this webpage.

Tomorrow night, Monday, April 19th beginning at 7:00 PM Eastern, I will be attending a unique concert event in center city Phildaelphia. Read more about this fascinating concert/conversation event in my

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This summer will be three years that my website in its current form will have been live on the Internet. In that time, as it has grown, I have been exposed to many amazing opportunities that I would never have expect...

This quite simply is the result of an incredible natural abilitycoupled with a rich body of knowledge in all styles and forms of music.Superb!