I may have have stolen this blog entry from my other self because I couldn't decide which blog would be less interested in this

As usual in these situations, everyone loses.

K, so there was some music fest or something. There was music, blogging, beer-sweat T-shirts, but mostly blogging.
It was beautiful, probably.

But that was last week! This week, what we care about is stodgy guys discovering Youtube. I just won't let my developing classical music-blogging obsession die.

Here's a composer who pieced together Youtube auditions for his piece into a Powerpoint-ish purple-gradient-tastic 250-person choir. What poor grad student edited this into semi-coherence? We will never know, but his windows on our walls of many lanlord-friendly colors, windows into our souls, we will never forget.




Eric Whitacre has friends! Friends, named Steven Bryant, who tell us the Composing Secrets "They" Don't Want You To Know! But seriously, this guy deserves some Internet fame, because it's clear from his blog that composition is the dismal science.

And by science, I mean, art. And by dismal, I mean, no money.