Reposted by Cullan LucasSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Aaron 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. 4574
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Erasing marks from rental parts to Appalachian Spring today, and no one wrote "fuck this conductor" on their parts, so maybe I did alright 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Sent 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. 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Soooooo how are the AI bros liking the new 007 game??? 000
Reposted by Cullan Lucas🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 28/05/2026Classical 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 1919928
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026If you remember the Street Sharks cartoon, I'm just wondering how your back is holding up lately?static.klipy.comStreet Shark FlexingALT: Street Shark Flexing 220
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The 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. 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Every 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?" 110
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Meant 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 020
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026This 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 000
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Happy to announce I completely a mostly successful tenure track job interview. No further questions. 130
Reposted by Cullan LucasThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/05/2026Elim Chan has been hired as the first female music director of the San Francisco Symphony.bit.lyElim Chan hired as San Francisco Symphony's first female music directorElim 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. 110119
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Everyone bitches about Facebook, but let's all collectively reserve some hate for the absolute dumpster fire that is LinkedIn 020
Reposted by Cullan LucasMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment. 222123671632
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026could I just elect to not open up my work email today? 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The emotional toll of searching for illicit meat sandwiches is real and Scout is a Good Boy™ for doing these wellness checks 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Zoe the Beagle could also sniff out 100 meat sandwiches 140
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026static.klipy.comFred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away.ALT: Fred Armisen: Right To Jail. Right Away. 030
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Some 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 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026At 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 110
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Man, 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. 110
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Electrode Diglett Nidoran Mankey Venusaur Rattata (Fearow, Pidgey) 000
Reposted by Cullan LucasQuest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Dress for the job you want 281228248
Reposted by Cullan LucasSarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann is (finally) available for pre-order! In book stores Sept. 29... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Madame... 54616
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Regret to inform my 4 followers that forcing myself to drink two bottles of water drastically improved my brains outlook on the world 020
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026job search results (and some mild nepotism) got me like 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026good afternoon to everyone except for the person that pushed the announcement of the job results on social media before actually notifying final candidates 🙃 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Yeah, 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! 020
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Ugh, 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. 110
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 01/05/20263ish 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!media.tenor.coma 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 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Me on a college campus for the day that I'm not teaching atmedia.tenor.coma man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kidsALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids 020
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The absolutely unhinged power trip of seeing an emails that says "PLEASE READ" in the subject and you hit delete 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026media.tenor.coma bloody hand is reaching out from a shelfALT: a bloody hand is reaching out from a shelf 000
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Me to the higher ed interview gods (search chairs) rn:youtu.beCarly Rae Jepsen - Call Me MaybeYouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I feel like the mere mention of a Diamond Rio has unlocked something ancient and mysterious in my brain 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026lol is it bad that I can't even remember which jobs these were for? 000
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Totally, 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 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I 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! 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026translucent green lego bricks will always have a special place in my nostolgia-fueled belief of what space travel should be like 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I 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. 110
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026media.tenor.coma man in a pirate outfit is swimming in the water and says wet againAlt: Jack Sparrow is swimming in the water and says wet again 010
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I cant remember how accurate this is, but I feel like Daniel Craig's first James Bond movie had some sopping wet dudes 210
Cullan Lucas @cullanconducts.bsky.social · 10/12/2025screaming into the void has got to be top tier for me 020