Flash forward now. Rahn’s daughter is playing “Jingle Bells” in Savannah on the piano decades later. Rahn glances over at the sheet music and sees a familiar name, Composer: J. Pierpont.
"We are writing that," he announced, so Alderman started playing chords at the piano, working with the opening melody of the original "Jingle Bells" for two lines before diverting to a new set of ...