Brandon Nelson
IMAGO DEI
Category: Personal
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Many people still harbor romantic notions of composers. I often get the impression that they think we drift from project to project on the wings of some mysterious force called “inspiration,” perhaps while hunched over a piece of manuscript parchment, ink quill in hand and scowling at a stingy muse. In reality, the question of…
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In a recent Composer’s Digest entry, I outlined several changes I wanted to make to enhance my professional productivity. A short while after publishing that, I hit upon the idea of creating for myself an annual production schedule (that is, mapping out all the projects I would complete during the course of the year and an…
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Dramatic and colorful, this piece (which features a trumpet soloist with flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano) will add a distinctive flare to any performance occasion. The industrial structures of the Quincy Mine have loomed over Michigan’s Copper Country since 1846 – imposing, evocative, even hauntingly beautiful, especially as the sun sets on the…
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For those of you who have not yet read my bio, in addition to being a composer and a teacher, I am also a husband and a father. Over the past year or so, my wife has developed an interesting parenting-themed blog. Today she asked me to write a guest article about what my life…
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