"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 • 

Noelle McMurtry

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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 • 

Noelle McMurtry

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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 • 

Noelle McMurtry

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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