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Andrew MacKelvie: Many Worlds

by Glenn Astarita
May 13, 2026

In 2012, Andrew MacKelvie was struck by a drunk driver while cycling through Halifax. He broke his back, shattered his knee, and landed on his saxophone case, which likely kept his head off the pavement. What followed were months of immobility and, eventually, a compositional fixation on that sliver of time when everything might have turned out differently. Many Worlds takes its title from the quantum theory of branching possibilities and its method from chance. The music is ...