mendel (he/him)
banner
mendel.mendellee.com
mendel (he/him)
@mendel.mendellee.com
240 followers 170 following 480 posts
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 --
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
writing for 18 percussionists is interesting
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
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"
let's go shuck (yes I know it's spelled shough) #WhoDat
all I can say is that if I was the saints defense, I works be immensely frustrated with the offense rn #whodat
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
aaaand the offense negated the defense's hard work
wow the stadium was loud for those 4 downs #nola #whodat
love a good chicken noodle soup, esp with homemade stock
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
I know I'm home when second line is blasting over the airport speakers #nola
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
Reposted by mendel (he/him)
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.
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
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
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
www.youtube.com
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
which avenue of direct buy of this album (not streaming) nets you the most money?
Center post is unremovable

(This relates to marimba schlepping)
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.
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
please say hi to Kurt for me! Roberta Michael too if she's there! ❤️