Status Update

Hello Zombie-lets!

The Undead Maestro of All Things Musical is not for-real dead.  She's just working on a lot of different projects at the moment. Also, I've been gnawing on atonality lately (as you will recall from post-the-last) and it is considerably chewier than pop music.  In my college days of music history and contemporary music analysis, 20th century music was always a bit intimidating.  Not only because for most of our college lives, music majors are just trying to digest over 500 years of music theory and history in a tonal capacity.  So learning how to "break the rules," so to speak, is something that is sometimes approached with a bit of caution.  And, frankly, some modern music is scary sounding.  So, I am re-cultivating my ears to hear the merits of this music and dig into why it was an inevitable course for music to take.  You will hear all about it, I'm sure, given my tendency to make everyone around me learn whatever it is that I am currently learning.

Posts have also been sparse lately because, like some other bloggers, I don't like phoning in a post.  Unless I have something interesting to say or the topic really turns me on, I just can't make myself write something that I feel is worthy of being read.  Writing, like music, is hard work.

BRAAAAAIIIIINNSSS!

P.S. Your assignment is to go to YouTube or the library or iTunes, or wherever it is you locate and listen to new music and listen to a bit of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck.  That is all.