John Mackey
An American classical composer of the modern day. His musical repertoire is mainly geared towards wind band, with some occasional orchestral pieces here and there. He's also composed a few pieces for modern dance and ballet.
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His pieces tends to be rather complex with very prominent percussion parts, both pitched and unpitched, as well as lots of Uncommon Time.
He keeps a blog on his website, where you can listen to recordings of all of his pieces. And they are awesome.
Mr. Mackey's pieces exhibit the following tropes
- Cue the Sun: "Aurora Awakes" is meant to symbolize the sun rising. Another piece written later called "Hymn to a Blue Hour" has been viewed as a reversal of Aurora due to it being about a time of day twelve hours from dawn, plus the fact that both begin in a similar manner.
- Uncommon Time: A good number of his pieces have been known to alternate time signatures every measure, usually between something common and something uncommon.
- Sweet Home Alabama: "Sasparilla" [sic] definitely has a Southern feel to it.
Mr. Mackey himself exhibits the following tropes
- Expecting Someone Taller
- Food Porn: He's a foodie, alright. Any post on his blog that isn't about music is pretty much guaranteed to include gratuitous closeups of food.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: He spends an entire blog post gushing about his Siamese, Loki.