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NOLA-based composer former collegiate music educator (prim marching band) versipel.org ED - rhythmx.org Board VP hobbyist of video/tabletop games, poker, data, and cooking -- while not all new music is for everyone, there exists new music for everyone --

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · Feb 15

For those that don't know about me or my creative practice, a good way to do so is through the sound pudding interview I did with @adamscottneal.bsky.social

soundpudding.com/career-pivot...

Hi there, it's nice to meet you.

Career pivots and perseverance in new music: Interview with Mendel Lee

Mendel Lee (he/him) (b. 1975) is a New Orleans-based composer whose music explores both the evolution of singular ideas over a long period of time and layered syncopated rhythmic patterns and hemio…

soundpudding.com

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 4d

writing for 18 percussionists is interesting

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 4d

so now that I'm not traveling for a long stretch, I've been feeling tired pretty much the entire time i've been home.

It's as if all of the travel I did in Oct has caught up to me and now I want to take a weeks-long nap to recouperate

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

generally there can be an annoying disconnect between ideology vs reality due to "not happening to me/not my problem".

another example: "I support diversity in education systems! unless it means -my- white kid's education suffers from having too many black classmates"

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

let's go shuck (yes I know it's spelled shough) #WhoDat

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

all I can say is that if I was the saints defense, I works be immensely frustrated with the offense rn #whodat

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

my partner has been spending halftime looking up PI opinions online bc she feels very strongly that that last play before the half should have def been a PI call. #WhoDat

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

aaaand the offense negated the defense's hard work

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

wow the stadium was loud for those 4 downs #nola #whodat

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 6d

love a good chicken noodle soup, esp with homemade stock

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 8d

tomorrow i will have spent every sat in oct in a different city for a different reason:

10/4 in Amana IA for a wedding
10/11 in Ellensburg WA for a new music festival
10/18 in Portland OR for a performing gig
10/24 in Nashville TN for a funeral

wild

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 10d

rip adam. thanks for the board games.

www.crawfordservices.com/obituary/ada...

Obituary for Adam Baruch Kramer at Crawford Funeral Home

Adam Baruch Kramer passed away on Saturday, October 18, 2025, after a long and courageous struggle with primary sclerosing cholangitis and associated complications. He was a devoted father and a man w...

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 11d

youtu.be/fJ8AgdB1QYA

not a new work, but a fresh performance

"Polarities" for two marimbas by Mendel Lee - CWU New Music Festival 2025

YouTube video by mendel lee

youtu.be

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 13d

I know I'm home when second line is blasting over the airport speakers #nola

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 13d

just landed and it's taking forever for them to get the ramp to us to let us disembark, must be bc of the AWS outage

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible photograph from New Orleans' No Kings rally which will be in the morning paper here.

Doesn't look like a "Hate America rally" to me.

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 16d

i love the food culture of New Orleans, but god damn i forgot how much i missed high quality korean food from the PNW

This ghost pepper ramen I got in pdx was absolutely amazing

white bowl filled with an orange broth. some red, beige, and light green ingredients are visible on the surface

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 16d

adjduicating 72 compositional profiles (2 works each) and 11 percussion profiles (3 work each) for YoungArts Classical over the next few weeks.

a marathon of work, but a lot of fun seeing/hearing what the next generation of musicians/creatives are doing these days

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 19d

CWU performance of my marimba duet is now up. It's short, about 4'10"

One of the other composers after the performance asked "are those grad students?"

I took pleasure in saying, "no, one is a sophomore and one is a junior."

That percussion studio rocks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ8A...

"Polarities" for two marimbas - CWU New Music Festival 2025

YouTube video by mendel lee

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 20d

Central Washington New Music Festival 2025 is a wrap.

The students did an amazing job with my marimba duet, as I knew that they would.

Looking forward to working with the CWU Percussion Ensemble in the future which now looks like a "when" rather than an "if"

pics and vid are forthcoming

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 20d

which avenue of direct buy of this album (not streaming) nets you the most money?

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 21d

Center post is unremovable

(This relates to marimba schlepping)

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 21d

thanks to the NMF i'm at right now, I think I know what i want to do for the second movement of the large work I'm writing (in phases) for Mantra Percussion.

Oh, also I guess I can now make public that i'm writing something for Mantra Percussion.

Pretty stoked about it.

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 21d

oh shit!

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 22d

first evening of the CWUNMF now over, great stuff so far.

now off to see what the late night poker scene is here in small town Central Washington

a concert stage with many individuals dressed in black holding French horns

mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 22d

please say hi to Kurt for me! Roberta Michael too if she's there! ❤️

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