Today was a very full day on all fronts -- ICANN, OneWebDay, digging through everything recently filed in the 700 MHz proceeding (this week's favorite filing is here, from Google), and...viola.

I have a feeling you read that last word as voilà. You probably thought that I had fallen once again into the conceit, the blogging cliché, that any three disparate items can be tied together in a breathless post. 

Here she goes yet again, you sighed, rummaging through your feed reader, looking helplessly for something interesting to read. She's saying XY about ICANN and flogging OneWebDay, saying that it all relates somehow to spectrum policy. 

No, I'm spending a lot of time with the viola (the VYE-ola, as many lawyers call it) and with my new friends Tim and Alexa getting ready for an elaborate way-out-of-town concert on Sunday.  I can't put it together with technology, it doesn't fit.  Here are blogs of real musicians:  here, here, here, and here.

I have a friend who tours worldwide as an in-demand opera singer.  He asked me whether he should start a blog - he said everyone seems to have one.  I replied, too quickly, "Yes, you definitely should, it will give you a voice."  He gave me an odd look.  He thought he had a voice.

--Update:  four more music blogs recommended by a reader
1.  Alex Ross, New Yorker critic
2. Steve Smith, Time Out New York critic
3. Opera Chic, Milan-based opera gossip
4. Helen Radice, harpist