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Composer of music in search of a spirit of wonder. Exploring here for creative community and conversation. (I'll get my news and outrage elsewhere.) https://david-mcmullin.com musicians.today/@mcmullin @mcmullin.musicians.today.ap.brid.gy
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Today's BA newsletter includes a major announcement: WE'RE RELEASING A CECIL TAYLOR ALBUM. More details, some other cool news, and some interesting links for paying subscribers, within. Read, share, subscribe! burningambulance.substack.com/p/links-n-su...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

#Violin players, please help me out: Is this playable? Tempo is quarter-note = 68. And is it the good kind of challenging, or is it the curse-the-jerk-who-wrote-this kind of challenging?

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

A milestone I missed when it happened: sometime in the last few months, my work in progress (The Luminous Mysteries, setting all the prayers of the rosary for chorus and orchestra) became the longest composition I have written. #composing

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I just found out my wife has absolute pitch. We’ve known each other more than 35 years, I’ve been a musician the whole time, and somehow this never came up until this morning. I’m astounded. And looking forward to the next 35 years of surprises.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I often think about how Mendelssohn had a society for historical music that played pieces by Bach that were then only about 75 years old. A similar group today could do Stockhausen, Babbitt, Xenakis…

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Any #oboe players out there? Here’s a piece waiting to be premiered, played beautifully in this demo recording by Jennifer Slowik: davidmcmullin.bandcamp.com/track/votive More info and PDF score here: david-mcmullin.com/compositions...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments