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Kendra Preston Leonard

words for and about music

I'm a scholar focusing on music and screen history and women and music; and a poet, playwright, lyricist, and librettist.

Recent & Upcoming Creative Works

Protectress and I are in Kirkus again in this profile.

Sense of Self, one of my operas with Lisa Neher, will be performed at New Music Gathering in Portland, OR, on Friday, June 23, 2023, at 2 pm.

Currently in the works: new environmentally-themed pieces with composer Jessi Harvey and visual artist Rachel Watson for a work called Between Hope and Extinction.

Recent & Forthcoming Scholarly Works

Hidden Harmonies is out! You can read my chapter “Women’s Compiled Scores in Early Film Music” here.

“Reparations in Music Scholarship,” American Music 40, no. 4 (August 2022).

“Hearing The Hands of Orlac,” A Teaching Companion to Silent Film, eds. Liz Clarke and Martin Johnson, Rutgers University Press.

“Women and Technology in Music for the Silent Cinema,” in Player Pianos in Early 20th-Century Life, ed. Catherine Hennessy Wolter, 2023.

 

Recent Posts

  • SFF, poetry, puppets
  • Gilgamesh Weeps performed by the Madison Youth Choirs
  • Reparations in Music Scholarship
  • Lilith, memoir, annoying children
  • Writespace Workshop: writing about and with music
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