Saturday, 21 April 2018 A week from today, the Hartford Opera Theater (HOT) and the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO) will present a single performance event called “Speaking her Truth.” All three pieces on the program are by composer Jessica …
Jessica Rudman and I talked about the upcoming (28 April 2018) Hartford Opera Theater and Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra event “Speaking Her Truth,” featuring the premieres of our Four Songs for Lady Macbeth and Marie Curie Learns to Swim with Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy. …
The Hartford Opera Theater interviewed me about my work and the upcoming performances of Four Songs for Lady Macbeth and Marie Curie Learns to Swim, for which I wrote the texts. Read the full interview here.
Nadia Boulanger remains a legendary figure in the history of twentieth-century music, and articles on her career pop up online with some regularity. Unfortunately, many of these repeat or contribute to the hagiography of Boulanger, who in reality was far …
I am delighted that my book Music for Silent Film: A Guide to North American Resources has received a fantastic review in NOTES 74, no. 3. You can read the entire review here.
I’m delighted to announce that Paul Allen Sommerfeld and I will be chairing a seminar at SAM 2019 in New Orleans on Music & Sound in Horror Media. You will be able to submit for the seminar when the SAM …
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Here are my confirmed professional events this spring: 28 February-4 March: Society for American Music annual meeting, Kansas City 28 March-1 April: Shakespeare Association of America annual meeting, Los Angeles 7 April: AMS-SW Spring meeting, Collin College, McKinney, Texas 28 April: …
Kyna Morgan of the outstanding Her Film Project interviewed me last week. Read the interview here and check out Her Film Project here and on Twitter at @HerFilmProject.
I’m delighted to have contributed to the Women Film Pioneers Project, an outstanding resource on women in early film. Here I write about the careers of Hazel Burnett and Alice Jay, two organists who created their own scores and recordings …
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In this episode of the Newberry Library podcast, Alex Teller, the Newberry’s Director of Communications and Editorial Services, and I discuss women who accompanied silent films: https://soundcloud.com/shelflifepodcast/gigging-the-film.