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Cullan Lucas

@cullanconducts.bsky.social
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Conductor | AD for Driftless Urban Orchestra | Educator | Beagle Enthusiast 🐶 🎶

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Aaron Copland wrote a ballet set in central Pennsylvania, called it Appalachian Spring after a poem set in the Adirondacks, and got decades of credit for perfectly capturing the spirit of "Appalachia", so I think sometimes music is just about whatever you want it to be about.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Erasing marks from rental parts to Appalachian Spring today, and no one wrote "fuck this conductor" on their parts, so maybe I did alright
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sent out an anonymous survey to players from our recent large, mixed chamber ensemble concert. Said my conducting "pretty clear but sometimes hard to follow" and y'all, that's going in my press kit of my non-existent website.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Soooooo how are the AI bros liking the new 007 game???
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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 28/05/2026
Classical music has gotten too far from its roots. We need to bring back traditional practices like: - performers cutting passages they don’t feel like playing - putting random pieces of unrelated music in between movements of a multi-movement work - hiring audience members to faint
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
all hail green frothy dirt water
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Whataburger is highly overrated.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you remember the Street Sharks cartoon, I'm just wondering how your back is holding up lately?
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Street Shark Flexing
ALT: Street Shark Flexing
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The stare I got y'all, as if I had just kicked their favorite dog, is one that still lives with me. Is there just a level of musicianship where it consumes every moment of your life? Like on purpose? Absolutely wild to not have your own weird little hobby for sanity.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Every once in a while, I think about my time as a grad student where I picked up a guest conductor who has a pretty big career now, and I asked them "so what do you do when you aren't focused on music?"
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Meant to study appalachian spring today for a performance in a few weeks; accidentally drank two pina coladas and a mai tai instead 🤷 Hope the players forgive me when I drop a beat somewhere
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is now tied for my most viral take (3) and I'd just like to thank Elon musk for sucking so bad to make days like this possible
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Happy to announce I completely a mostly successful tenure track job interview. No further questions.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/05/2026
Elim Chan has been hired as the first female music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
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Elim Chan hired as San Francisco Symphony's first female music director
Elim Chan has been hired as the first female music director of the San Francisco Symphony. She will start with the 2027–28 season and has been given a six-year term.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Everyone bitches about Facebook, but let's all collectively reserve some hate for the absolute dumpster fire that is LinkedIn
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Stealth Birb
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
could I just elect to not open up my work email today?
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The emotional toll of searching for illicit meat sandwiches is real and Scout is a Good Boy™ for doing these wellness checks
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Zoe the Beagle could also sniff out 100 meat sandwiches
A photo of a beagle, Zoe, And a catahoula leopard dog, Scout, canoodling on the couch
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.
ALT: Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Some of those subreddit stories though. Whooooboy just the reddest of flags. I'm usually not one to be like "oh it's probably for the best" when some folks are desperate for work. But yeahhhhh maybe you don't want to work in that toxic shit
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
At least I can take solace in the fact that I had a great interview, and the job went to someone with family connections at a small university
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Man, I thought I was depressed after a job application went the other way, but then I found the AskAcademia and Interviews subreddits. Y'all, those stories are BLEAK.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Electrode Diglett Nidoran Mankey Venusaur Rattata (Fearow, Pidgey)
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dress for the job you want
Skeleton from Castlevania on Nintendo 64
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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann is (finally) available for pre-order! In book stores Sept. 29... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Madame...
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Regret to inform my 4 followers that forcing myself to drink two bottles of water drastically improved my brains outlook on the world
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/05/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "AI art can fuck off"
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
job search results (and some mild nepotism) got me like
the words "burnt out and sad" in Pokopia font
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
oh god was he in the files
trending list, Epstein, starfox 64, star fox, star fox direct, fox mccloud
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
good afternoon to everyone except for the person that pushed the announcement of the job results on social media before actually notifying final candidates 🙃
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Yeah, otherwise she's completely healthy and wonderful, and the vets all think she would bounce back quickly from that kind of surgery, so I guess thats a silver lining. Wishing the best for you and your pup too!
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ugh, I feel you. We have a 7 yo beagle, and she had a tumor on her leg removed, but it came back, so now we're talking about potential amputation and its just the most mentally exhausting thing to constantly have on your mind.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
3ish weeks post on-campus interview, and I haven't been rejected yet, so I guess thats still something? Solidarity vibes to all in the higher ed job job process rn!
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a man is talking to a woman and saying `` so you are telling me there is a chance ... yea! ''
Alt: "so you are telling me there is a chance" meme from Dumb and Dumber
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Me on a college campus for the day that I'm not teaching at
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a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids
ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The absolutely unhinged power trip of seeing an emails that says "PLEASE READ" in the subject and you hit delete
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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a bloody hand is reaching out from a shelf
ALT: a bloody hand is reaching out from a shelf
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Me to the higher ed interview gods (search chairs) rn:
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Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I feel like the mere mention of a Diamond Rio has unlocked something ancient and mysterious in my brain
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
lol is it bad that I can't even remember which jobs these were for?
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Totally, blissfully forgot about the part of the higher ed application process where your soul jumps out of your body every time the phone rings for the next week (or two or three or
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I had two very different job interviews in the span of 24 hours at the end of last week, so now we've entered the Very Normal Hellscape of every single email notification setting off waves of panic/anticipation. Super neat!
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
translucent green lego bricks will always have a special place in my nostolgia-fueled belief of what space travel should be like
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I don't know if this is even close to the same, but looking at orchestra scores that I marked years ago is just an exceptional kind of torture.
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Soggy flashbacks, also classic
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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a man in a pirate outfit is swimming in the water and says wet again
Alt: Jack Sparrow is swimming in the water and says wet again
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
jet fuel! classic wet dude movie trope
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I cant remember how accurate this is, but I feel like Daniel Craig's first James Bond movie had some sopping wet dudes
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Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
screaming into the void has got to be top tier for me
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