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If you want to take a stand about art at the Kennedy Center, buy tickets for this significant and socially relevant work. Staying away hurts the artists more than the administration, and if new work like this sells poorly, it gives them an excuse to say it's unpopular, and stop programming it.

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Found a good all purpose reaction image.

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Some snapshots from the piano recital in Washington DC that I attended last week. As I read the news about Kennedy Center more often as of late, it might not be for a while until I feel compelled to return there.

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Teaching Max in my Electronic Music II course, newly implemented at my current workplace. Of course it’s the first time Max is taught here. Even when the students’ patches may not work flawlessly, my heart is warm to see them engaged with it.

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Reviewing some emails I wrote today, I had the strange realization that their tone was oddly neutral, making my writing read like something an inferior version of ChatGPT might generate.

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I was hanging out with a friend from Japan as part of the festival, and we were walking towards the High Line. We heard some chanting and all, and the reason was evident. At least to me. It made me wonder what people like him—far from the US politics—think about all the debacles.

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The translation gig for Music from Japan concerts went well, but were it not for the kindness of @santibeis.bsky.social helping me carry the suitcase & dashing on the busy street, I’d not have made it to the train back to DE. I shudder to think if I were late by 20 more seconds. Thanks Santi! 🙏🙏🙏

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In NYC for helping Music from Japan with their post-concert forums with language interpretation, all the while learning about the news of NEH funding. What a strange mixture these two things make in my mind.

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Today I had a very cordial and scholarly conversation with @pmgentry.bsky.social on this very topic, resulting in collective circular ocular movements (his office is only a few doors away from mine!). We have also discovered that the said book costs nearly 50% less in its E-book version.

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Update: I finally got the books I ordered and can’t wait to start reading them.

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DC bound for the all-Ravel recital by Seong-Jin Cho. My friends Ashley and @buddytwo.bsky.social spoke so highly and I couldn’t resist (also, it’s a little valentine’s gift for myself): www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/exp...

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As @jarek-kapuscinski.bsky.social is now on Bluesky, timing couldn’t be better to give a shoutout to Jarek and his colleagues for the album “Alikeness” now being nominated for the #JUNOS. It’s been an honor being a small part as the orchestrator of the eponymous work! junoawards.ca/nomination/2...

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Welp, there goes electricity. Apparently it will take until tomorrow afternoon to restore it. I hope it wouldn’t be that long…

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I was chatting with a friend who told me he's been developing his new website, which is turning into his "daily obsession." I said he should perhaps listen to Ysaÿe's 2nd Violin Sonata, but also of course this piece: youtu.be/uF_R6sKbhtg?... It's just so mind-bogglingly good, that piece.

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I was chatting with one of my composition students about Kendrick Lamar (and Drake), and I introduced the student to this piece by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. I think it’s pretty proto-diss, esp. last movement (and the Wikipedia has a whole article on “Diss”): youtu.be/9GO43MIA8gM?...

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I have a non-stop work-all-week semester, and Week 1 just ended. While exhausted I am, I have found myself mentally replenished. My students and colleagues are truly gems, and I am just so very lucky to be among them.

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I ordered three books to be delivered to my PO Box. I picked it up today, then I opened the package, only to find a box of what appears to be an audio converter. None of the three books was to be found. Naturally I am perplexed, but I also know that it's 2025; anything could happen at this point.

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Checking out Flashes, Bluesky’s app that is in the beta testing version. It seems to be good so far. Of course I’d post something related to Dorian. Here he is studying to be a watch repairer.

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And with that, I deleted my Facebook account.

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OMG THANK YOU UBUWEB!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Spending an evening in NYC. Attended a concert at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, featuring Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong’s “Soundless.” Vast sonic landscape that reveals itself over the course of a little over an hour. An amazingly paced work, and it was a wonderful composition lesson for me.

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When teaching composition, I almost always think about how students of Messiaen walked their own paths—stylistically speaking, mostly—while he himself walked his own. Having mentioned to a colleague that I spent two years in Tokyo teaching, I wonder what would’ve happened if I stayed…

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Another old post of mine on FB, a snippet of conversation I had with Fred Lerdahl when I was taking composition lesson from him that year. Since then for 15 years, masterpieces have always eluded me.

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While I am in no way able to blame others for continuing to use it, deleting my FB account and attempting to distance myself from the products of the company that admits to side with that which is giving so much griefs to so many people every single day, is now a question of morality.

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Deleting my FB posts continues, and I’m at a point where the posts were written in the third-person narrative.

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It was very nice to tune into my alma mater’s composition seminar on zoom and audit quietly in the background. I’ve missed it, truthfully.

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As I go through the old posts of mine on Facebook to delete them, I saw I once shared this clip of David Foster Wallace, but I did so not because he mentioned contemporary classical music. Had he been alive now, I wonder what he’d think about the new low we are in now youtu.be/39UJuPogwiY?...

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Not sure how much of a difference it will make, but I wrote to the two senators of the state I live in right now. I think the more people do it, the better outcome it will have...

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If the motto of Paris is "fluctuat nec mergitur", perhaps the motto of the US as of late, for non-wealthy and underprivileged (even for the slightest bit) people, is: "f̶l̶u̶c̶t̶u̶a̶t̶ n̶e̶c̶ mergitur."

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I am seeing some posts re: coding and all I need to say is that coding is an invaluable asset today if you want to fortify your problem-solving skills. It’s a skillset that nourishes other skillsets. It’s happened to me recently, and I’m not even a computer scientist!

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😍🥰🙏🙏🙏

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Going through my old posts on Facebook now from 2018. I stumbled upon this. I am not sure what the word was that I saw on NYTimes back then... But it feels oddly relevant today, and whatever the word was, we are probably immune to it.

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This morning's procrastination was making a starter pack of University of Delaware faculty. I'm sure I've missed some, so feel free to chime in! go.bsky.app/D6JCwoJ

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Audition Week at my school started today, and boy did I feel like I was trying to relearn how to speak. My words came out of my mouth in small pieces. I suppose this is what happens when I replace English with Scheme and LilyPond codes all winter long, aside from making small talk with Dorian…

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