ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcoV37kRFc&feature=related

Ressurection

Ok, let's get this thing going again. Perhaps it's the spirit of the inauguration or maybe some intellectual wanderlust, but there's much to say and much to do these days.

Coming soon: audio blog! I'll be working on a project called 'Due Process' (perhaps hosted here, if I can link correctly...)

More posts, with content (and limited commentary) of material like this:

At the root of our current national dilemmas is an accepted lack of integrity. We are assaulted on all sides by corruption of such magnitude that it's hard to fathom. Almost everything and everyone seems to be for sale. Value is assessed solely in terms of dollars. Quality is sacrificed to commerce and truthful communication is supplanted by marketing. The type of gamesmanship that separates races, genders and ages by 'preferences' is a most cynical brand. The integrity and dedication shown by American artists throughout our history provides a most needed and unequivocal counter-statement. - Wynton Marsalis

Astute and awesome. Let's all get our houses in order.

Twitter

No, don't twitch and jitter at the same time. Twitter is an online update service that you can post to from the web or a mobile device. It's actually pretty fun, and if enough of your friends have it it's even more specific and amusing than FaceBook stalking (and less stalker-y too!)

www.twitter.com

check it out

Get ready...

So I got a call a couple days ago from an undergrad friend who is the conductor of The String Orchestra of Brooklyn (The SOB.org - best acronym EVER) and now I'm going to be writing a piece for their spring concert. Watch out Brooklyn...

The conductor also has a pretty cool website and blog: Up Above Buildings

... I don't care...

This is pretty awesome and captures the nuance of the hipster fairly accurately.

I miss Vassar a little when I see it too...

clipped from youtube.com

Welcome

Hello out there. I'm in here. I'm trying to make this blog thing happen again.

Hopefully with more success.

I hope to bring you, in the coming weeks/months:

Talks with composers
Thoughts about composers
Thoughts about the business of music
Thoughts from other people besides me about similar things
Discussions of pieces from the modern repertoire
Things that you write to me about, telling me to put them into a quasi-coherent blog post

OK? OK.

Here I go...