I was thinking about the LOC randomly and was like, hey whatever happened to my buddy there!? So happy to have you back on my feed!!
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I was thinking about the LOC randomly and was like, hey whatever happened to my buddy there!? So happy to have you back on my feed!!
Art by Harriet Diamond. "Would you harbor me?" Concert October 5, Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst. Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble, Arianne Abela, director
Concert coming up October 5 with my wonderful choir Illumine
Works on a theme of migration
So much beautiful stuff by Buxtehude, Shaw, @mormolyke.com , Guillaume, and more
2:30pm, Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst MA
Thrilled and humbled by this serendipitous opportunity...can't wait to hear the music Melissa Dunphy has composed.
I know it's still 2 months away, but I am so excited about New Wave Opera's upcoming production of my & Jessica Rudman's Marie Curie Learns to Swim & Alice Tierney by Jacqueline Goldfinger & Melissa Dunphy! Get your tickets (& donate!) here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Really feeling this one
Erasure Songs no. 2
Music by Melissa Dunphy
Words created by Laurel Chen by erasing words from the N-400 application form for naturalization
notice: any immigration
notice: hearing
notice: see
notice: you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjmB...
I spent yesterday working on practice tracks for Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com ‘s “Wild Embers” for the feminist chorus I’m in and it is stunning.
It's the 17th C equivalent of having a German villain named Hans Gruber who is evil because of course he is.
And suddenly I realized: OHH SHIT, all those English and theater discussions about "Why is Iago in Othello so inherently eeeevil?" FUCKING DUH it's because he's Spanish, and England and Spain were doing a crazy war, with the Armada sneaking up the coast, wild Protestant v. Catholic shenanigans, etc.
I was watching something this week with a character named Santiago, and looked it up. If you are also Romance-language-challenged, Iago is James in Spanish, the patron saint of Spain, who supposedly brought Christianity to the peninsula and was buried in a Spanish church there after his martyrdom.
My recital at Wigmore this next week = come for the Duparc and Disney songs, and leave emotionally/molecularly changed by the Melissa Dunphy set. (No joke, half of the task of preparing this set is just feeling my emotions through it…the text is just so beautiful, and Melissa set it so perfectly!)
Yeah, I'm catching up on old posts around here, but it's fun that your port gave me that trip down ancient memory lane 😆 I don't even act anymore since the composition career took off!
Dropping here because I still remember this debacle 💅 www.phillymag.com/news/2006/08...
Whisper it quietly, but could "Boléro" actually be... good?
On Ravel's 150th birthday, read Melissa Dunphy on a masterclass in orchestration.
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Hahaha omg I can't believe you dredged that up ... someone came to the show the next day because he always vehemently disagreed with Zinman reviews and made a point to see everything she panned 😆 He enjoyed the show! I still crack up that a professional reviewer called me "toots" in print 💩
Today I'm listening to Chants by Melissa Dunphy, with poetry by the intriguing Rosaleen Norton. It captures mysticism, mystery, a world of fantasy, and a unique sense of spiritualality.
Find Melissa's work at melissadunphy.com, and don't forget to support #womencomposers this month and always!
I'm not on here enough, but yes! Someone put it on a bag, and I have too many bags, but I want it www.architecturaldigest.com/story/you-an...
It's all his fault
Whoa! I wish I had space in my house among all the broken bottles 😆
"Rise up, tattered and torn! Rise up, barren and reborn!"
It's been strange having a thing that brings me so much joy emerge in a moment of such despair, but our album is about finding connections with others through universal human experiences, so that's something, I hope. youtu.be/j91q_pxA-2M?...
No idea! I guess it's in the hands of the bank/police. I got a replacement check, at least!
Cameo appearances by @leviathant.com and one of the empty cat litter buckets I used to bring genuine 19th century oyster shells to campus to be used as props
"Alice Tierney" and "Escobar" at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts coming up this Friday and Sunday!!!
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See this awesome little promo vid shot by Rutgers film students.
In-process photos. It's hard to articulate how frustrating and engrossing and messy and (eventually) rewarding this is.
Give me names and I will research/consider. I challenge you.
His father Augustine sealed his bottles with a similar-looking "AW." www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...
...and until someone gives me an alternative, I'm telling everyone GW stands for George Washington hahaha. No but seriously, come up with another rich dude hanging out in Philly in the mid 18th century who would be likely to give out monogrammed wine bottles.
The walls of this bottle were exceptionally thin, and it's slightly larger than many of the similar mallets I've handled, so it was a challenge. We can't find another example of a "GW" seal anywhere in the literature or on any seal databases...
This bottle here is the primary reason I have spent 200+ hours in the last month jigsaw-puzzling a massive tub of green glass shards. We found and picked out just the seal when we were digging the 103 South privy, and I was hoping to find the bottle that housed it. Hard work and patience = success!!
I guess if you've stolen someone else's identity and opened a bank account in their name, you can deposit your stolen checks into that account to protect yourself, but OMG that seems like so much work? And are you depositing in person or via mobile? So many ways to get caught!
Part of the aggravation is that I'm kind of powerless—I never received the check, so technically it was stolen from the issuer, not me. Any action is in the hands of the sender, so I have to wait until they get it sorted, refunded (hopefully), and can re-issue at their end.
Like, how are you supposed to get away with it though? You might argue that they don't care, they're just desperate, but it's a lot of work to break into a blue mailbox and wash a check—these aren't impulse crimes, so doesn't the getaway part occur to them at some point?? Make it make sense.