Love-Hate Relationship

The year 2010 has been very random. I had a dire fallout with my love for music, I reconsidered the past three years of my university life over and over again and I asked myself -- do I really want to do this with my life? Like everything else I had been doing this past year, I gave up on it, and I convinced myself that I didn't want to study music history anymore. It was then I realized that I was going to graduate next year with the world's most useless degree.

Then June came around and the 2010/2011 timetable for the year showed up on Western's student site, and I started to look at the course I could take for the next year. While I had convinced myself that I just didn't care, I found myself frustrated with the amount of overlapping and available music history courses my faculty was offering. My biggest obstacle right now is deciding between Romantic Opera History, and Late 20th Century Music. I know both of the profs teaching each course, and I was torn between the two.

What better way to chose than to listen to some Romantic Opera and Late 20th Century Music (by which I don't mean popular music)? I have lots of Late 20th Century Music: lots of John Adams, late Copeland, Bernstein, and the Canadian R. Murray Schafer, to name a few. But upon looking at my itunes collection, I have very little Romantic opera that does not include my Norton Anthologies. Hence my decision to take Romantic Opera history to learn more. I hope to put some new discoveries in Opera up here (hopefully there won't be too many standard Romantic Operas, I love to learn about the obscure works of composers).

Here's to another long hiatus, as I will be away for the summer.
xo Kate