Review of The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Oresteia (2019), Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin, Directed by Michael Kahn, Music by Kamala Sankaram, interview with Sankaram

Poetry about the Brumadinho disaster

In a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits called “The Sixth Finger,”
Gwyllm Griffiths (David McCallum) volunteers for a scientist who has
found a way to advance man’s evolution by over one million years, thereby
creating human supergeniuses with an aptitude for rapid learning and
enhanced mental capacity. The final script was ten minutes too short…[Read more]

The re-use of storylines from radio plays on early television was not uncommon; indeed, much of the television programming of the 1950s and early 1960s consisted of repurposed radio scripts. Columbia Presents Corwin ‘Moat Farm Murder’ (Bernard Herrmann, 18 July 1944) was among the many radio programmes from the 1940s that had music featured in The…[Read more]

Archives are full of ghosts—the ghosts of music long-forgotten, technologies now superseded, practices that have faded away with time. This talk examines music used to accompany and signify the supernatural the silent film, as well as what can be learned by excavating the ghosts of musicians’ lives and careers now held in archives both at the Uni…[Read more]

Archives are full of ghosts—the ghosts of music long-forgotten, technologies now superseded, practices that have faded away with time. This talk examines music used to accompany and signify the supernatural the silent film, as well as what can be learned by excavating the ghosts of musicians’ lives and careers now held in archives both at the Uni…[Read more]

Review of Composer Diversity Database, https://composerdiversity.com Music Theory Examples by Women, https://musictheoryexamplesbywomen.com

This document is a brief initial guide to conducting research in music theory. It highlights significant reference sources and databases, lists some major journals and other resources in the field, and suggests some ways of beginning to look for information on a topic.

Initially compiled in 2014 at Harvard; revised w/Gettysburg College…[Read more]

British composer Laura Rossi is perhaps best known for her work providing new scores for
silent films, including The Battle of the Somme (1915), The Battle of the Ancre (1917), and a
selection of very early cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare (1899-1911) that appeared as
Silent Shakespeare in 1998. Rossi is also the composer of scores for many…[Read more]

An authoritative thematic catalog for the Star Wars film franchise, including music notation, hyperlinks, and theoretical explanation of leitmotifs, incidental motifs, and associative progressions.

Most recent update (Feb 2019) includes Source Music, Concert Arrangements, End Credits, and music notation for Incidental Motifs.