https://mendellee.com composer • performer • educator • entrepreneur Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:05:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mendellee.com/mendelblog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-MCreates512-32x32.png https://mendellee.com 32 32 https://mendellee.com/product/beauty-beholder-for-symphonic-wind-ensemble/ Sat, 20 Apr 2019 21:40:44 +0000 https://mendellee.com/?post_type=product&p=3239 beauty…beholder is my attempt to take various elements normally seen as clashing and instead embrace and include them into an atypical definition of a beautiful musical whole. It was written as a reaction to the incident that occurred in January of 2012 during a New York Philharmonic concert in which a mobile phone accidentally started ringing during a performance of Mahler’s 9th Symphony. It was commissioned by the Xavier University Symphonic Wind Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Westgate.

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