aworks ordered list :: first sentence meme

Virgil Thomson via Wikipedia

Via The Madness Within, here's the meme where we recap the blog year by highlighting the first sentence in the first post for each month:

January: It's the eve of the every-four-year Presidential Caucuses in the state of Iowa.

February: Or to phrase it in English, my overly large MP3 collection (>25,000 MP3s) was causing iTunes to overheat my PC.  

March: Mixed Meters has gone to the trouble to tabulate the most discussed composers etc. in Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise.

April: 'Revolution 9,' by Alarm Will Sound -- New York Magazine Classical Music Review "Alarm Will Sound turns the Beatles’ “Revolution 9”—this is not a joke—into chamber music."

May: I've changed how I organize my reed reading in Bloglines.

June:  My Fickle Ears Dig It: Identity "we tend to accept the premise that it is better to say "do this" than..."don't do that." Nevertheless, this mode of thinking tends to go out the window when tuba players approach repertoire that predates the tuba, especially anything by J.S. Bach."

July: How Californians See America - funny-graphs-californians.gif (GIF Image, 500x380 pixels) Hah.

August: Although I proposed to actually listen to new music, today it's back to the works of Virgil Thomson.

September: Here's a list of my most played albums in the last six months, as seen by last.fm anyway:

October: Summer Shivers. Susan Glaser plays Jennfer Higdon.

November: Although Cornelius Cardew was technically an English composer, I do endorse the use of his music by Object Collection for their upcoming election night concert in New York:

December: YouTube: We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. San Bruno, California finally gets some culture...