I saw the first half at the Monday dress rehearsal; looking forward to the whole thing tomorrow!

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Whenever I get to Nevermind in class, I put away my lecturenotes, take out my guitar, and play every song from memory. Who needs musicology.

We just ordered his 7ft dog companion

I play a niche role in neighborhood Facebook groups telling various people that I’m a music professor and I am giving them permission not to try and save the piano.

I’m taking over running P&T in our department, and this an endless problem for us. Research is technically supposed to be considered only 35% of our workload for tenure, but then we ask for external reviews from places with much higher expectations.

Sort of a weird venue to advertise this, but just in case: if you are a student at the University of Delaware we are offering a new course this fall on "Music in the United States," taught by my wonderful colleague Dr. England, and you should take it! udapps.nss.udel.edu/CoursesSearc...

This has really helped me understand the bizarre budget situation we’ve been dealing with this semester at Delaware. (and made me so thankful to be unionized, and all more committed to getting all of the workers here in a union.)

you know, a little blog post I wrote back in 2014 about Taruskin and Klinghoffer still holds up.

It is truly an accident of a syllabus designed last fall that somehow, this week of all weeks, we are discussing The Death of Klinghoffer. 😬