When I was young and foolishly sure of myself, my song lyrics too often had the tendency to focus on what the listener should do to get his or her life right. I call these kinds of songs “You [...]
Last week I attended my first day of school. Let me clarify. “Professor” Sterling (sounds weird, right?) met with a small group of students on Saturday morning (yikes!) for the first of fourteen [...]
I recently released a solo project. We used to call them albums. Then we called them CDs. Now I just go with “project” – because CDs have pretty much disappeared, and albums (LPs) are only for [...]
I’m a guy who mostly lives in the “right now.” I never thought too much about yesterday, and probably never thought enough about tomorrow. Composing and producing music (often on a deadline), [...]
Most of us have been “pigeonholed,” or creatively typecast at some point in our lives. For all I know, it’s human nature to reduce another person to a particular thing, so we can better identify [...]
I love the movie, The Princess Bride. William Goldman’s brilliant screenplay is one of the most quotable scripts of the last twenty years. And one such line happened when Miracle Max [...]
Robert Sterling’s For Unto Y’All is a delightful gospel musical based on the Biblical Nativity story… In this version, however, whilst the characters’ and town names remain the same [...]
It’s been quite a year. In the past twelve months, I’ve been through a major surgery and a minor surgery. I’ve buried a younger sister, an old friend, and a mentor. My wife, a [...]
This past weekend, I had a fun and all-too-brief visit to 1st Baptist Church, Carrollton, GA. The choir and orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Glenn Eernisse, performed four of my works in [...]
Every so often, I think it’s important to ask the question “why?” – especially as it relates to my work. As in, “Why do I write church music?” A lot of my [...]
