R.A. Moulds. Composer, writer, and #2 dad to the sweetest Frenchie in the world. Transplanted to Lovely Ireland. Pronouns: I/me...what else would they be?
Iranian who escaped Sharia law warns the West:
"I'm Iranian. I went to prison under Islamic law.
I know how it startsโฆ and it always starts with the Left uniting with Islamists.
I came to Canada for freedom. now Iโm watching the exact same pattern.
They appease. Weakness invites more. They will never stop."
This man lived it.
The West is sleepwalking into the same nightmare.
The journey to creating "The Music Box Dance" โ The iconic musical scene that made the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) famous.
Revisit the classic duet by Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes that captivated millions of children for generations.
I've been sketching the string quintet without key signatures, even though it's conventionally tonal. I don't think I like writing tonal music without key signatures. There. I said it.
New article on the state of publishing, which has seen an author asked to remove the word 'fat' from a novel, another told not to include jokes about Chinese restaurants using MSG, and yet another told to cut depictions of male characters that were deemed too positive.
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โEducation should teach men how to think and what to think. The modern world increasingly teaches neither. A culture survives when its inheritance is transmitted, and that inheritance lives principally in books.โ
โ Hilaire Belloc
The amount of time I spend figuratively biting my tongue on social media is somewhat alarming. What is more alarming is the number of people who never bite their tongues at all.
I'm often mildly surprised that so few pianists want to play these; are they that awful? I was going to write a 3rd set, but why bother?
Listen to Aquarelles, Books 1 & 2, a playlist by R.A. Moulds on #SoundCloudon.soundcloud.com/OBHD5rxjr0โฆ