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

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.

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

Wow, I did not know if the existence of this and I am very glad I do now!

I always feel bad telling this story because it makes me sound snobby—and I really loved Phantom!—but a distant relative once gave me a CD of it because they heard I “liked classical music.”

haha, no worries, but yes, there's a lot of different narratives to explain the 20th century, many of which ignore what composers and audiences were actually doing! (Watching Boheme over and over again.)

Always like to point out that Puccini was mostly a twentieth-century composer.