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matthewdnielsen.bsky.social
Conductor, composer, baritone. Author of “The Technique of Choral Writing” (https://amzn.to/3y64jnF). Dog dad to Aoife. Proudly Bi 💙💜💖
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A few years ago, Jonathan Talberg at Cal State Long Beach entrusted me to help edit, mix, and master tracks that he had recorded in Cambridge with the Bob Cole Chamber Choir. What a privilege it was to share a small part of this album's creation. music.apple.com/us/album/son...

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Nothing convinced me more of this than going to the American Choral Directors Association national conference and learning first hand that 99% of the folks there had no idea that I wrote a book on how to compose and arrange for choirs. So here comes a whole lot more relentless self-promotion!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

How many of us were saved by a car seat? Or by workplace safety regulations? Or by the FDA? Or childhood vaccines? The list goes on and on.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trans rights are human rights. #TransDayOfVisibility

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Santa Monica houses 👀

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🎶“E’er you left your room this morning…” 🎵

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VTA’s employees are on strike right now, and rather than negotiate in good faith, the transit agency is encouraging and incentivizing its customers to use its competitor. The people of San Jose deserve better than a transit agency actively trying to use Uber as scabs. #solidarity

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Time for some full-frontal choral nerdity #acda

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is the only way to accurately describe what we have become:

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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social is officially uninvited from brunch www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Reposting from a friend: Please stop referring to DEI as if it is solely about race/ethnicity. Here is a partial list of what DEI is about. -ramps and sidewalk curb cuts -subtitles & captions (TV & phone) -family restrooms -changing tables in men’s restrooms

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Transport me into this painting

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Lol, I’m on the E Line so I didn’t feel anything 😂

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

[Enter the Clowns]

submitted 58 days ago • 22 comments

DOGE isn't saving us money. DOGE is forcing us to DIY society--to manage all the costs, risks, and problems that government is best poised to solve.

submitted 62 days ago • 26 comments

I wrote a long thread about how CA High Speed Rail is actually good and making real progress in response to a poorly thought out opinion piece:

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