Dedicated to "SSIM" and a much larger Story, that one day, must be told.  This article appeared in the June 2019 Issue of "The Journal of the Association of Concert Bands".


“Never Forgotten” has been played around the world.  People…

10 FEB 2024
On the Birthday of Hero, Jerry Goldsmith
D-9 for Luxembourg

WARNING:  Much here!  Ready for the told and untold stories?

Chapter 3 (Grade 2-3) “The Search for Truefire!”
S T O R M Q U E S…

Photomementi in PDF here.

SAM “Uncle Sammy” RING, a Great Man Always

18 JAN 2024, on the Birthday of Sammy

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

Sam Ring’s life is beyond “story.” He was born…

Thoughts on ONLY for NOW
1978-2024

For teens and people who love them. 

There’s only 1 way to be 65 years old and resurrect a book written while you’re a teenager, about a teenager, for the teens you’ll one day…

The “world” constantly unleashes its wars, its divisions, its dictates against reason, its fomenting of hatred, and a list you well know.  Now imagine LOVE unleashed, a Love of Humanity, a True Romantic Love, a Timeless Love.  

The “Ahab, &…

The Beautiful Rats
By © Stephen Melillo, IGNA 2 FEB 2023 
Dedicated to Sir Edward Lisk

“Hey, you ever heard the story of the ugly duckling?” 

“Nope.” 

“Okay, so once upon a time there was this rockin' rat named Rocco.” 

…