2026-07-17 18:31 UTC
As part of my continuing project to get my music onto platforms where you can hear it, here are my Li Bai Songs, settings in Mandarin of Tang dynasty poetry.
Patrick Mason, baritone; Curtis Macomber, violin; William Anderson, guitar.
Premiere performance, November 9, 1999, Merkin Hall, NYC
https://mirlo.space/david-mcmullin/release/li-bai-songs
Score, lyrics etc. here:
https://david-mcmullin.com/music/li-bai-songs
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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-19 16:02
The Li Bai Songs are now on bandcamp too, in case that's your preference. https://davidmcmullin.bandcamp.com/album/li-bai-songs More info, PDF score, texts etc. here: https://david-mcmullin.com/music/li-bai-songs/ @composers@fedigroups.social
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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-17 23:19
@composers@fedigroups.social A bit more about this piece, which is close to my heart. These are poems that my wife (fiancée back then) and her parents love. The initial idea was that my father-in-law would sing them—he has a beautiful voice—but what I wrote turned out to be too strange. He likes my music but this is pretty hard to sing if you’re not used to atonality. 1/n #composing