The cognitive dissonance of the Never Trumpers

I have issues with Never Trumpers.

It is difficult to work with the group who created catastrophic destruction, with which we are now dealing, in the effort to repair that destruction. It is even more difficult when that group regularly and arrogantly attacks us for being too disordered and ineffectual politically, and for allowing this catastrophe to happen by being so ineffectual.

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Suite for Orchestra, “Figures in a Landscape”–Writing for untuned percussion

One lesson I learned back in 2019 when I was experimenting with orchestral writing was that–one personal revelation that is–I love writing for percussion. From college-and-after-days I’d always admired the drummer and their skill of body-wise coordination rather than hand coordination; admired it likely because it was simply of equal competency to a pianist yet foreign. And that sounds really arrogant, but I think it’s just more naivety of the percussionists’ milieu. No offense, but you’re awesome.

The current state of the second movement, Village I from Suite for Orchestra, “Figures in a Landscape”
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