William Finn’s passing has really hit me hard. Much harder than I expected. His music has meant to much to me. His songs have inspired me, comforted me, consoled me, and brought me infinite joy.

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Reflecting on the life of Val Kilmer, two of his roles made a huge impact on me at a very impressionable time: his appearance in the music video for Tenacious D’s ‘To Be The Best’ — the most stirring short film I’ve ever seen — and as Dieter von Cunth in MacGruber.

Just finished watching North of North, and I really hope there will be a second season. My girlfriend and I were laughing and crying all throughout. One of the best shows I’ve watched in a while.

I had the opportunity to produce this interview with JP Saxe for About Time on CBC Music. You can read this article I wrote and listen to the radio hour here

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As a composer, it’s easy to look back and be frustrated at a year of rejections and opportunities that didn’t happen. But I’m going to take a moment to appreciate the successes I had:

The Paris and Haffner symphonies have been some of my longtime favourites. They contain so much of the humour and charm that first made me obsessed with Mozart. My first recording was the Colin Davis with Staatskapelle Dresden, and I’ve also fallen in love with this recent recording from AfAMB

I feel very lucky that people still listen to my music, even when I haven’t been actively promoting it for a few years. I plan on getting back to this project soon. I’m sitting on a few demos that I’m really proud.

Was reminded of the wonderful @gabrielkahane.bsky.social song ‘The Faithful’ earlier today, and it’s now been stuck in my head now for hours and hours. This whole album is one of my desert island discs gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/track/the-fa...

𝄆 Music theory is not an oppressive set of rules on how to make music. It is just the act of analyzing music. 𝄇

#nowlistening to Gustave Samazeulih’s String Quartet. I just happened to stumble across the score on IMSLP, and wanted to see if there was a recording. What a gorgeous piece! I particularly love the third movement

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I want to puke every time I look up info about a person and the first result is an AI image

Every time I think of Harry Somer’s Symphony #1, I am in awe. This has been one of my favourite symphonies for many years, and I hope one day I’ll be able to conduct it in concert

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