About the Composer

Thanks to a big improvement in the latest version of Wordpress, I’ve switched this site from being organized around “categories” to being organized around “tags”. It’s hard to explain what the difference is. Suffice it to say that, in my case, the word “monkeys” could never be justified as a category, but it seems just fine as a tag.

The best way to understand it is to see it. Meet my tag cloud.

Every post can have any number of tags associated with it. The tag cloud shows how frequently or infrequently I’ve used each tag. It’s a startlingly real picture of my world.

As for the old categories, many of them have been converted to tags. Others are just gone now. (Sorry, yeah, no more “category shmategory”.) I’ve replaced the sidebar list of categories with just the most frequently used tags.

Happy tag browsing!

Well, I made it! The first post in the About the Composer archive is dated August 17, 2005.

The blog started out as I was just rolling up my sleeves to work on Letter To Hungary, a commission I had recently received.  I thought it would be fun to write about the evolution of the piece. There was a bit of that, but eventually I found myself writing about all sorts of other things, including interesting friends, interesting music and my very interesting son.

As a one-year retrospective, I’m putting links to some of my more popular posts below in the “Related Posts” box (in reverse chronological order).

It’s been fun, and I plan to continue indefinitely. Thanks for reading!