Happy Friday, music nerds! I’m excited to announce that I will be writing a weekly column on classical music for The Morton Report, a newly-launched pop culture website!

For contractual reasons as well as to appease the angry gods of search engine optimization, I won’t be able to repost my columns here. But I can provide a link and an excerpt for your delectation. I cordially invite you to follow the link, and if you like what you read, let my editors know! Onward and upward to complete MMN web domination!

In my debut column, Classical Music is Dead – Long Live Classical Music!, I wrote on a topic that has been on my mind for a while now:

Every once in a while, someone in the music world finds it convenient to proclaim that classical music is dead or dying, provoking others to argue that it is more vibrant than ever.

I think you all can guess which side I come down on!