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I love all the emails I get “touching base” about the “$250,000 seed money” they’re offering me for my “exciting program.” It’s almost —almost!—like they know a Nigerian prince or two.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don’t mess with California squirrels

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For the first time in over four decades, I rolled out of bed during the night. I woke up on the way down.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

None. All LLMs are proprietary and using them is giving over your work for no compensation or credit.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday, I was in the last mile of our NASM self-evaluation while I was surrounded by the ebullient sounds of faculty chatting, students laughing, a violin lesson, staff consulting… and I felt such a happiness that all this work is allowing them to be just as they are: joyful, productive, musical…

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The other day, I lowkey took my son to the most dangerous urban park in the world by accident. Parent of the year…

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Queen of Scotts

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, the Fall 2026 edition of “look how everyone’s better than you“ has dropped. Good thing the recycling bin is on my way into the house…

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you were interviewing for the Trump admin, it would be a White Russian…

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Prompting isn’t fun” is really the whole game, right there.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ope, I think I left that cake out in the rain… again.

Sign for the entranceway to MacArthur Park

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

D Line extension at Wilshire and LaBrea

View of the end of the platform with a mural composed of concentric arches in blue

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m going to write a piece called “I had a thought yesterday about Sumerian clay tablets”

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I once saw Anton Kuerti play an all-Beethoven program (at about 20’ away!) where he played one of Ludwig’s improvisations as if he (Kuerti) was improviseing it on the spot. Still one of the coolest concert memories I have.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meowin' 9 to 5, what a way to get some food in Barely gettin' fed, it's all sleepin' and no eatin' They just use give you kibble and they never give you wet food It's enough to make you lazy if you let it #caturday

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Better than the Dies Irae from Verdi’s Requiem?

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m super-tired of the constant stream of NPR stories about it too.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Application for promotion to Full Professor is in. And I am out. Happy Friday!

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why does every single grocery store in North America play “Heart of Glass”?

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All this, with the understanding that some pieces only use first order modulations, and it is not unknown for second order modulations to appear first. Just, on balance, this is the statistical norm found in Corelli’s Trio Sonata corpus.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My thinking was to illustrate “first order modulations” which are the most common (and likely in part one of a binary form), in comparison with “second order modulations“ which are less common (and typically in part two of a binary form), and other modulations that really don’t show up very much.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m actually not aware of Ratners diagram as I am a total interloper in this part of our field! I’m gonna have to look it up.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trying to come up with a more visually intuitive way of teaching modulation targets in Corelli’s trio sonatas.

Graph showing first order modulations (V and vi in major, III and v in minor), second order order modulations (IV and II in major, and iv and VII in minor), and uncommon modulations (iii in major, VI in minor)

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my students drew my portrait on the white board yesterday.

Reasonably good whiteboard marker, drawing of a man in glasses with a beard and a hat, super imposed on Music staves

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LAist @laist.com · 24/09/2026

L.A. County health officials are investigating a localized outbreak of flea-borne typhus in Wilshire Center, a dense area that overlaps with Koreatown. Seven people have been diagnosed so far. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5jmr4 ✍️ Hanna Kang | The LA Local 📸 Shutterstock

Close-up of a flea with text about Koreatown typhus outbreak.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just got my royalty check from the sales of my Music in Star Trek book and it’s a cool $82.06. What should I spend it on? Wrong answers only.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am obsessed with transit map graphic design. The Tokyo train system map should be like a UNESCO World Heritage Artifact IMHO

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, I spent a lot of time writing what can best be described as “knockoff DS9 trumpet licks” before I decided to just face the , uh, music.

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Grad school hammered into me that research was for winners, teaching was for pay, and service was for chumps. That’s completely wrong. The people you teach and serve will remember you for a long time, the people listening to your music will mostly remember you until the next track. #musochat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Although I’ve had some wonderful experiences, I wouldn’t ever say that one of them justified all of the difficulties. Instead, it’s the smsll, seemingly insignificant daily acts of devotion to my art through creation, analysis, teaching, and service, that make it all worthwhile. #musochat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’d love to be an airplane crash investigator for the NTSB or a mass transit planner. I don’t seriously think about it, though, because of the amount of re-schooling I would have to do. #musichat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Things will both go far better and far worse than you ever imagined in ways that you never anticipated. Hang onto your hat, enjoy the ride, and make sure you never trade the illusion of success for anything that you really value. #musochat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nobody, really. Becoming the things I am was never about emulating someone else’s path, but finding the one that was best for me. That being said, my Dean did talk me off a ledge about becoming department chair. Does that count? #musochat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I started off wanting to be an orchestral trumpet player, but realized I hated practicing and loved composing, so I switched to my sophomore year of college. I decided to officially become a theorist when I got into a composition and theory doctorate. I never thought I’d be chair. #musochat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve been a composer since writing the incidental music to Tennessee Williams play “Camino Real“ in my senior year of high school back in the 90s, I’ve been a music theorist since I started teaching in the mid aughts, and I’ve been department chair a little over a year. #musochat

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Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My account name is my actual name, my pronouns are he/him, and I am a composer, music theorist, teacher, and department chair.

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