Is it really rude of me to keep winds on their own staves for this orchestra piece? It’s gonna be a battle to combine them as they are quite independent at times

Just used a secondary dominant unironically in this piece what am I even doing

Composers! What are some of your favorite modulations from pieces from the last 100 years (classical or classical adjacent genres)? Links please!

That is quite the toupé, Landon Donovan

Do you ever write a whole ass piece and realize you’ve given nothing to Bassoon 2 or Trumpet 3? 😂

Trombone concerto coming along nicely! Way ahead of schedule, and feeling better and better about it day by day.

Started out today by making a reasonable goal for a short work day: write a secondary theme for the first movement of this trombone concerto. Within 5 mins I realized I just needed to spin out some transition material into a full theme. Took 10 mins. Now I’m FLYING past my original goal for 2day 💅

I think I might have actually successfully de-corned my trombone concerto. There’s still a bit of sap, for sure, but not quite dekalb 🌽

I looked up the full text of 4834 and Illinois is straight up refusing to acknowledge testosterone as a controlled substance or track prescriptions of it and will destroy any such existing records. This is really great!

Someone just unironically said to me: “I’m a republican. I’m in the middle.” Sir, what?

Profoundly sad (and angry) about today's SCOTUS ruling against transgender athletes. The bigotry and racism of several recent rulings are hard to absorb. My heart goes out to transgender people and their families, especially the parents of transgender kids (I know many). I feel your sadness today.

Just a women’s sports fan out here routing for whatever men’s team doesn’t have a known rapist on it. God, I hate men’s sports.

Is it possible to write something for trombone that isn’t at least a little bit cheesy?

Ok, I’ll admit it, I have no idea what the difference is between a ritardando and a rallentando

The erasure of the women’s game in this World Cup is SENDING me. J. David does not have the most goals all time for Canada (40), Christine Sinclair has 190 international goals for Canada. Messi does not have the most World Cup goals of all time (16), Marta has 17. DO BETTER.

Niche, thought-provoking documentaries on Netflix that aren’t about men athletes?

It’s small, but this feels good

Something I’d like to do this summer is make a short series of video tutorials on how to put materials together when applying to opportunities. It’s an access issue where, especially folks who didn’t attend a traditional music program, have barriers to entry outside of even just application fees 1/2

Hot take, but using someone’s image in an AI generator without their consent is really unethical

Giving this a little bump to see if anyone in my network knows what going rates for hour admin are. Thank you! 🙏

What is a reasonable hourly rate for someone working as an assistant to a composer? I have no idea what going admin rates are, and am hiring someone for a fixed amount of work over the summer.

Having spent more time on public transit in the last 3 days than I have in the last year, it was a rude reminder of how men perceive women’s bodies as movable and malleable—never with consent.

Business idea: hotel doors that close silently

Omg this email just made my day 🥹

A friend sent me this auto reply she got from a German colleague and I couldn’t possibly feel more seen! Ladies and Gentlemen I am on parental leave. Your message will not be read or answered. Kind regards, [name redacted]

In our neighborhood in Boulder, you can very accurately predict a household’s political leanings by how conformist, bland, and trendy their house color is. Navy with wood beams on front porch? Trump sticker on car. Monochrome black with cement planters? Trump duck in Jeep.

Flau’jae is so damn ready for the W. She’s incredible.

Women: [play sports] Me: YES! Be strong! Be fierce! Be everything society tells you not to be!!! Men: [play sports] Me: Congrats.

Commencement is this weekend. Last year’s commencement was the first time a parent didn’t mistakenly congratulate me on graduating—despite my garishly orange Princeton robe clashing with CU’s black and gold. Hoping I can maintain my streak… any tips on how to appear old and crotchety are welcome.

The semester is officially over, which means my parental leave is up. I’m really looking forward to hooding two incredible doctoral students as they graduate on Saturday. It’s as much of a rite of passage for me as it is for them. 💛🖤

Hey folks! My queer country alter ego EmmyJean Jenkins released her first EP today! Would mean the world to me if you’d go check it out! Links to streaming and bandcamp in the comments ❤️🪕🏔️

Hopping on here to share that my queer country alter ego EmmyJean Jenkins has her first EP coming out tomorrow on Adhyaropa Records! Available on bandcamp or wherever you stream your music! emmyjeanjenkins.bandcamp.com/album/gay-al...

NEWS: Paige Shiver, whose alleged inappropriate relationship with Michigan coach Sherrone Moore led to his firing in December, said Moore “had complete control over me” during an interview with Good Morning America.

Of course international women’s day is only 23 hours long 🙄

The children that the USA bombed in that Iranian school were more worth protecting. Just off the top of my head

Watch CU wbb play KU and my god this one ref is calling every tiny shred of contact as fouls and it makes me so mad like—LET WOMEN BE PHYSICAL.

You guys my high school chemistry teacher came to my show last night! I hadn’t seen her in 18 years! But apparently she moved to Colorado a few years ago and saw my post on Facebook and she came to hear my premiere 🥹😭 She came up after the show to say hi and the surprise absolutely blew me away

I am currently on parental leave and have an OOO up basically saying “sorry not talking until August.” And I swear to god everyone just texts me instead. What part of “not working” do academics not understand?!?

Do I know any composer-bassoonists or composer-trumpeters?

Everyone is cracking up over Canada men AND women cheating at curling, but they forget that Canada women’s soccer national team cheated their way to a gold medal at Tokyo 😆 absolutely so funny this seems to be a Canadian thing

What’s something that is 100% factually incorrect but you believe with every bone in your body? I’ll go first: it should be “forward” and “torward”

So my record label gave me a UPC number but no barcode. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to generate a barcode from an existing upc. Seems like everywhere online just generates a totally new/unique barcode with a new upc. Help!

Rhythm musicians: I’ve decided my 2026 resolution will be to really get solid with my rhythm. As a vocalist and string player, I’ve gotten by with “good enough” for too long. Where do you suggest I start? Rhythm exercises? Drum lessons? Whatchu got?

Found the entry earlier this year—just a month before we found out we were becoming parents. It’s wild to think how different my life was just 10 years ago. None of this felt attainable back then, yet all but one of these became reality.

People who hate “All I Want For Christmas Is You” just hate pop music and think they’re above it, genre-lly speaking.

My favorite Christmas tradition! Christmas Eve aperativo with my better half

I **** you not, my wife and I just watched a movie called “Last Christmas,” which was about a woman who was ungrateful for her heart transplant

Hey Bluesky! Been a second! Have a kid now lol. What’d I miss on here from the last 7 months?

Today, a lovely lady at my usual Irish session said something that assumed I was straight and I realized it’s been YEARS since someone assumed I was straight to my face and that actually made me pretty happy 😆

Alright y’all, I’m at a point where I’m in desperate need of management. Any tips? Ideas? Thoughts? I simply cannot keep this up on my own anymore.