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"By a Linden Tree": The Leipzig Lieder of Composer Ethel Smyth
I explore the song “Bei einer Linde” by Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), a trailblazing queer English composer, conductor, author, and suffrage activist.
Aug 12 • 
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May 2024

Comtessa de Dia, The Early Music Police & Me
A post about discovering medieval song, the trobairitz Comtessa de Dia (c. 1140-1212), and silencing the lingering ghosts of the early music police
May 6, 2024 • 
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October 2023

"A place of rest where we know we will not enter..."
Trois Mélodies, op. 91 by Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
Oct 5, 2023 • 
Noelle McMurtry
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August 2023

To Be Loved Less Than a Flower
In composer Margaret Bonds’ setting of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Hyacinth,” we encounter an unflinching intersectional feminist portrait of the…
Aug 13, 2023 • 
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June 2023

The Woman Within the Portrait: Ria & Mizzi
Reflections on Lacy Rose's cycles Ria (2018) and Hope I (2017)
Jun 28, 2023 • 
Noelle McMurtry
An Ancient Poet Speaks: Finding the Voice of Sulpicia
Reflections on Jessica Krash's Sulpicia's Songs (2015)
Jun 28, 2023 • 
Noelle McMurtry
The Portrait of Barbara Strozzi: Tales of Gossip, Rumor, and Innuendo
Reflections on Barbara Strozzi's È giungerà pur mai (1664)
Jun 28, 2023 • 
Noelle McMurtry
Singing with Myself: Pandemic Virtual Performance & Melissa Dunphy's June
Reflections on Melissa Dunphy's June (2012)
Jun 28, 2023 • 
Noelle McMurtry
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