...and so it begins, my first attempt at blogging in five years Far from my rusty old Xanga's blog's role as chronicler of my high school doings and primary vehicle for keeping tabs on pretty girls (pre-Facebook! we were all so young), this blog is hopefully going to be one that the reader might actually derive some pleasure from. I want to try my hand at the sort of writing that Alex Ross and Jeremy Denk do: write in an engaging way about the interrelationship among classical music, other kinds of music, and the events of my own life. What especially inspires me about Denk's writing (his blog is called Think Denk, well worth a read) is his ability to marry a writer's imagination to an astute theorist's conception of (and reaction to) musical structures in the pieces he writes about. His best writing in this style has fundamentally changed how I think about music. Of course, Jeremy Denk is a fabulously talented and intelligent pianist, whereas I, sitting in my mom's house, am enjoying what might kindly be called the "pre-success" (or less kindly, the "migrant laborer") phase of my career.* But I know I have something to say regardless, and the purpose of this blog is to help me figure out how to say it. I look forward to hearing from you all about how well (or badly) this is all going.
*or even less kindly yet more truthfully, the "poor as shit" phase
