Philipp Lojak

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#musicology

I'll arrive in Minneapolis on November 5th at noon time. So, maybe I will come.

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I came to the US because my dream is to become a musicology professor here. Profs usually get a H1B before they apply for a GreenCard. I don't believe universities can afford 100k for every new professor... do intl. students have to abandon their dreams?

#AcademicSky

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People don't trust Big Pharma. At least, Big Pharma is regulated.
You shouldn't trust Big Supplement.

Vielleicht die Kurrentschrift nicht richtig gelesen...

The right does everything to claim moral high-ground right now: "Look! We are better than the left!"
Please let us not forget all the horrible mockery and ridicule that republicans had poured over murdered and assaulted politicians from the democratic party.
Trump, DJTrump Jr, Mike Lee, Van Orden

I've just looked at the profile. Must be a Freud disciple. No way around it.

"we are no longer living in the age of idiots"

- Charles de Saint-Évremond in a letter from 1685 to the prepubescent page Monsieur Dery, trying to convince him to submit to castration

Take away: If somebody claims the superiority of our age and uses it as an argument, watch out.

I happen to have a large bushy tail and I love acorns. Do I have to worry?

Tragic. Music is an important piece of most people's life. Thus, musicology is key to understand how the world is experienced. To understand us as humans. Today and in the past.

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. And again, my position is not tooo far away from yours.

Best of luck with bringing world music to the people. It's so important work.

Also, calling people out as literally hating/fearing foreigners--and in my experience, people who say stuff like that are most of the time of the cosmopolitan, well-intentioned kind--feels just over the top.

I think I got a good picture on how clueless Western orchestra musicians can be when faced with a different culture. But I don't like this proclivity to emphasize difference since music can be--IMHO--a platform on which these differences can be overcome.

For quite some time, I worked for an orchestra and my job was to organize concerts in which classical musicians were encountered with musicians of different cultures. Wonderful experiences for all of those who were involved. This is why this is an important issue to me.

Imho, it's not xenophobic. "Western music is the universal language" would be. As you explained, "communication" across musical cultures can be difficult (although not impossible). Rather, the statement is a categoric mistake, equivalent to "language is the universal language".

The APA has required capitalization after colons for years. As a colon-sucker, I embrace the CMOS move towards standardization.

Excited about this jam-packed new issue… or should I say jams-packed?

#musicology

There are feel-good words and risky words for musicologists.

Never say "style." This will make musicologists passionately dispute. Be aware using "modern"... oh, and "genre" is risky, too.

But everybody loves archives. Say it and everybody will feel good and won't ask further questions.

Wow, I didn't know that Jake Johnson has such cool – I should say: Beethovenian – hair!

I'm tired of books that structure their chapters like operas/suites/sonatas/...
"Chapter 1: Overture" etc. etc.
This is soooo unoriginal! This was done a million times and does not add anything.

I found a market study claiming that the opera "MArket"/"marekt" (sic) will grow 5-7% annually over the next 8 years. I WAMT to take seriously. So much.

Normal philosophical argument:
Premise 1
Premise 2
Conclusion

Every second argument by Slavoj Žižek:
Premise 1
Marx Anecdote
Some quote by Lacan or Hegel
Joke about Stalinism

YouTube video by Philipp Lojak Pezzi sopra figure della Commedia dell'Arte for Clarinet (2022)

Exciting News!!

My piece "Pezzi sopra figure della Commedia dell'Arte" for clarinet is now available on Youtube. It is played by the amazing Sebastian Langer and combines expression with lightheartedness.... cool stuff.
So, check it out!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7k9...

Props to the people who were brave enough to agree in this survey.
As an opera scholar, I have to admit: Yes, opera often is boring. Yes, opera often is difficult to understand. But this is the beauty of the art form. It is our society that endows both attributes with a negative meaning.

True! Is the Tonkunst peer-reviewed and indexed? Alas, I cannot find it on google scholar or in the databases of my university.

I researched for musicology journals in the last couple of days and it is shocking how many journals have thrown in the towel in recent years!!

#Musicology

I love the early Roland Barthes. Semiology, Mythologies etc... these were truly illuminating readings for me.
But I hate the late stuff. Grain of the voice etc... it really doesn't do anything for me.

Wow, this was interesting!

At least much better than most other use cases.

Congratulations! Lovely photos! I guess Kodak?