Hello
After deleting all my social media accounts (which I know is a very boring and annoying thing to bring up), I realized that I miss writing about music in a casual setting for my friends. So I am trying out the newsletter paradigm! I’m planning to focus on the kinds of music that I have a little bit of systematic experience with: Western “classical” music (and its contemporary relatives), especially vocal music, as well as the music of the Western Church. I don’t have any expertise in any of these areas, but I promise to be careful.
I’ll try to write a little bit about every concert I go to (which won’t usually approach the level of a “review”), and maybe say something about recordings (new and old) if anything interesting comes to mind. I will also try to take the theological and liturgical dimensions of any church music I discuss as seriously as I can. (This is not going to be the kind of music writing where I try to tell you that Bach’s church music is actually about the universal human spirit!) Most of all, I’d like to just share what I’ve been listening to and thinking about with you.
I am planning to update this once a month or so. And I know that Substack is a platform for paid subscriptions, but I have no plans to ever charge for my “content,” so they will just have to lose a little bit of money on me forever, I guess. Stay tuned!