At Kansas All-State handing out copies of Starting Strength to scrawny band kids.

Music Theory Online is an HTML-based journal (with accompanying PDFs) and is fantastic.

Things that distinguish classical music from other genres: -Emphasis on counterpoint -19th c. concert tradition (halls/salons) -Werktreue

I'm no Schenkerian but learning Schenkerian analysis did make me a noticeably better pianist.

I agree with Jeremiah, but this debate just shows that all the bs freshman seminars need to be replaced with great books courses. American music theory is especially guilty of this. You can get a degree in music theory without ever reading Rameau, Schenker, or Riemann.

10 piano pieces that are dating red flags:

"Is Schumann a dog composer" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

My childhood teacher's older students. My main source of motivation as a child!!

I feel like when musician friends ask me for obscure composers they expect me to say, like, Ginastera. They're not ready for Boucourechliev or Wang Lisan 😅

Serial "Tyranny" in classical music was a myth. (See Joe Straus's excellent article) I've read the rebuttals and they're all bad.

Arendt's conclusion that totalitarianism is fueled by loneliness was 100% spot on.

"Accessibility" is incredibly misused in music. Accessibility doesn't mean simple, easy, or pleasant. A free concert of Beethoven string quartets is more accessible than $1500 Taylor Swift tickets.

A former mentor of mine was recently poached by a Chinese university (and he's very happy there). The US is surrendering its hegemony in exchange for pennies from universities.

Quit MtG when the Walking Dead crossover happened in 2020 and I've felt incredibly vindicated since.