The 2006 Music of the Week archive is finished. I didn't realize I had quite as many gaps as I do. I'll start a 2007 list and try to keep it more current. Part of the reason I did this, by the way, is that there is now an eMusic blog, and Yancey Strickler kindly put LoDW on its blogroll when I mentioned my weekly note. But since music is not the main topic here, I thought I should at least make the music-related posts, especially pop-music-related ones, easy to find.

I'm giving up secular music for Lent (not just pop/rock, but classical, too). However, I have a backlog of several albums for MotW. I will go ahead and post those. There may be a gap of a couple of weeks toward the end of Lent, depending on whether and how much I decide to post about the music I do plan to listen to.

For five or six years now I've planned to listen to Bach's St. Matthew Passion during Holy Week, and never managed to do it. So this year I'm going to start early, hoping to hear the entire work at least twice before Easter. I also hope to give Elgar's Dream of Gerontion an attentive listen. Whether or not I write about these here depends on whether I think I have anything useful or interesting to say, something more specific than "Wow, this is really good."