https://www.wegner.world/will-wegner daily 1.0 2025-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d74102ea57f7103b016eba7/0be9f742-4d2c-45b5-ac9b-7a0006548b31/Will+BW+1.png Will Wegner - Will Wegner is a lyricist, librettist, and linguist from Wisconsin, now based in the Bronx. Read more about Will. Photo by Nina Goodheart. https://www.wegner.world/lyrics daily 0.75 2025-10-08 https://www.wegner.world/about daily 0.75 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d74102ea57f7103b016eba7/d89c73d2-0e75-45a3-94e5-a8081ab8c980/Will+BW+2.png About - Inhabiting a world of words. I have always been captivated by the intricacies of human language. It’s why I have been writing poems and lyrics since a young age. What began as a penchant for crafting parodies of popular songs in elementary school grew into a passion for the creation of new musical theater. My obsession with language is also the reason for my interest in linguistics, where courses in phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics have taught me how to analyze sounds, their structure, their meaning, and their interpretation in context. As any linguist will tell you, language is arbitrary: a system of signs arising from an evolutionary need to communicate crucial information. And as any lyricist will tell you, that arbitrariness is where the fun comes in. Stephen Sondheim sometimes lamented that he preferred composing to lyric writing, as the latter was far too difficult. He was underselling himself, of course, as his ability to communicate meaning within constraints was unparalleled. It’s a difficult job, but someone has to do it, and it might as well be the person who can’t stop thinking about words, no matter how hard he tries. (Photo by Nina Goodheart.) https://www.wegner.world/linguistics daily 0.75 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d74102ea57f7103b016eba7/282b0385-e73a-464f-ac79-0d3e37ec4a21/FoDS7p2.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d74102ea57f7103b016eba7/60be2ce0-9fb3-41aa-8721-04ee8948986a/FoDS7p1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d74102ea57f7103b016eba7/95ede9a3-d43f-483c-9dd3-773d936aa09b/FoDS7p3.png https://www.wegner.world/celinaromano daily 0.75 2024-08-09 https://www.wegner.world/celinaarosemena daily 0.75 2024-08-09 https://www.wegner.world/contact daily 0.75 2025-06-16 https://www.wegner.world/tickets daily 0.75 2025-07-10