A nice mention in SF Classical Voice today about my Cassandra-inspired piece with Jessica Rudman, Cassandra, or Don’t Girls Love Horses, which will be premiered on 17 April! Here’s the full text of the piece, originally titled Girls Love Horses,…

I was interviewed by VoyageHouston about my work and living in the city. I talk about my journey as a creative  writer, living with lupus, collaboration with great folks like Lisa Neher, Jessica Rudman, George Harvey, Stephen Vincent Casellas, Double…

Critic Thea Dirks reviews the One Voice Project Micro-Opera Festival, giving it the Critics’ Choice Award! Read here for the original Dutch or below for an English translation. Lisa Neher, Kendra Leonard One Voice Project Virtual Micro Opera Festival STRONG…

I’m honored and delighted to have received the International Alliance for Women in Music‘s Pauline Alderman Award for Best Scholarly Article or Book Chapter for “Women at the Pedals: Female Cinema Musicians During the Great War,” which appeared in  Over…

I had a wonderful time talking with Lawrence Elizabeth Knox of the Houston Chronicle about the One Voice Project Micro-Opera Festival, life in Houston, and the arts. Read it all here.

Author’s Note: I’ve been giving this talk in various ways for a while now, focusing on different topics within it, and finally decided that it should be a blog post rather than a journal article, in part because I can…

Meg Wilhoite of Sound Meets Sound interviewed composer Lisa Neher and me about our upcoming premieres of FIVE operas! Check out our discussion here and the performances here. We talk about the collaborative creative process, how I became a librettist,…

I’ve set up a Julia Perry Working Group on Humanities Commons.  You can access the group here, where you’ll find a discussion board, a list of members, and my complete files of Perry’s music. These are all downloadable, and I’ve…

Composer Lisa Neher and Librettist Kendra Leonard present the One Voice Project Virtual Micro Opera Festival, a weeklong festival of micro opera world premieres. Every day from March 22-26, a new 5-minute unaccompanied opera written by Neher & Leonard will…

UPDATE: All of the PDFs I have are now posted at the Julia Perry Working Group on Humanities Commons at https://hcommons.org/groups/julia-perry-working-group/documents/. I know, I said I wasn’t going to do work on Julia Perry, but that doesn’t mean I can’t…