Light Me Five Postclassical Candles

happy anniversary.
You still have your mystery!

Happy blogoversary!

so what does astrology say about the birthdate of your blog? leo-virgo cusp?

speaking of which, my brother was saying there's some sort of 13th sign between scorpio and sagittarius that isn't accounted for. do you know anything about this?

oh, this is a music blog?

KG replies: Ha ha, very cute. The sun and Jupiter were conjunct and exactly opposite Mars and Uranus - holy shit, no wonder this blog has gotten me into a lot of arguments.

Happy blogoversary! Thanks for staying with it, you're a national treasure.

Happy Anniversary! I'm grateful there's a place online that covers music so in depth, there's really nothing else like it. Greetings from Putnam County.

There's always the impulse to reckon the music (your music) against the written ideas, opinions, and perspectives. 'If he thinks this, then how does his music sound, how does his music take that perspective into account?' To me, written expression is often a 'gateway' into composers' music-- many times have I been weak and through a passing dalliance with an online post developed a serious addiction to a composer's music.

And besides, mysteries, even mysteries that are well known, continue to unfold.

Thanks for posting all these thoughts for us to read here. Happy composing!

Happy anniversary! Long may you blog.

Congrats on 5! Here's to happy more!

I've learned a lot from your writings. Happy aniversary! I wait for still many years to come.

Kyle -

Big congrats. I'm certainly not the only one whose artistic life has been enriched by your writings, and most likely not because I've always agreed with you, but that I've always been able to respect your viewpoint.

Slainte!

Jon

Congratulations, and a happy anniversary to one of the most thoughtful music blogs around.

Congrats Kyle! To many more ...

changed my warped perspective--learn something new every blog---keep on blogging!!

Might be worth mentioning that here in the Old World there are some discerning music lovers who will know or have played some pieces by Virgil Thomson but I bet hardly any of them have read a word he wrote. Same for Ned Rorem, although he's (even) less well known. So the optimistic conclusion is that music lives longer than words about music. (Shit, where's that manuscript paper...!)

But keep up the blogging anyway, Kyle.

At the risk of...OK, there is no risk of repetition- I offer another congratulatory word. Every effort toward illuminating music and musical thought and eliminating arrogance wrt the same is worth all the energy taken to do so. You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out...didn't Stockhausen do something with that motif? Anyway, keep on throwing words out into the world and the world will usually be a better place.

Thanks.

congrats and many more!

You always get my attention and speak so clearly about being a creative artist that I really understand what you are saying. In fact, you are the only music blog I even read.

here's to many more! as someone fairly new to so-called classical music, i think that your constant communication to listeners and readers has helped obliterate the pretension that sometimes surrounds this music.