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.

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!)

Whisper it quietly, but could "Boléro" actually be... good? On Ravel's 150th birthday, read Melissa Dunphy on a masterclass in orchestration. van-magazine.com/mag/ravel-bo...

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!

"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?...

"Alice Tierney" and "Escobar" at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts coming up this Friday and Sunday!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-_... See this awesome little promo vid shot by Rutgers film students.

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!!

OMFG, I've been hit by the crime wave I keep seeing in the news: some fucking mail thief stole a fat commission check addressed to me and cashed it UUUUGGGGHHHH

A little emotional about these two. Case gin bottles are almost impossible to assemble from privy contexts; I have LEVELED UP, ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED. If that weren't exciting enough, we have our first onion bottle now too, omgggggggg. Both from the bottom of the 103 South Privy. #archaeology

Melissa had a day or two free, and turned her puzzle solving skills toward the huge pile of glass we haven't processed yet, focusing at the moment at seven Chestnut bottles.

On Saturday, at 1pm, at the historic Peter Wentz Farmstead in Lansdale, @mormolyke.com & I will be doing a talk about The Boghouse. Montgomery County itself is tweeting about this now, lol If you're able to go, please don't hesitate to say hi - follow the attached link for more information

I am struggling to finish a very overdue commission, and have been kinda down on myself this week, but I just saw this piece from @katewagner.bsky.social and have been laughing my ass off for 5 min at this paragraph—I feel so much better!

when movies get deleted for tax reasons, they should legally become public domain. people should be allowed to upload it anywhere they want. that's the tradeoff you make if you wanna delete your own movie released this year for a few extra bucks, and i think it's fair

SUPER SUPER pleased with this performance of "Sailing Away" by In Medio in Portland! 😍😍😍😍 Always fun when you are actually happy to have your own music stuck in your head lol https://soundcloud.com/mormolyke/sailing-away-melissa-dunphy-performed-by-in-medio

Who needs the Thames? After a good rain, we can mudlark in the dog park across the street from our home in Philly! We always spot 18th- and 19th-century sherds, likely churned up from demolished privies and dumped back into the ground when the adjacent stretch of I-95 was built in the late 1970s

One of my cats has made her feelings about the halibut stuffy known, and the halibut stuffy also has some feelings about it

𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ

NEW: Renton's a trans man. HIs mom — Miss Illinois 1996 — is a MAGA influencer traveling the US calling the existence of trans people 'demonic' It’s Renton’s turn to speak https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-son-of-anti-trans-influencer-tania-joy-gibson-speaks-out_n_649d7449e4b028e6472f1700

Absolute bullshit that everything in life takes longer than it should. "Oh I should dust." Three hours later, still dusting—it would be quicker to burn this house down than get rid of all the dust jfc. Self driving cars? What fucking use are they, don't have time to go anywhere, still dusting

While this place is relatively quiet and hardly anyone is here ... I gotta get off my chest that I saw an opera in London last week about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster and ohhhh godddd so many things I want to rip to shreds. I don't want to be an asshole, and the performances were all great but...

It took some doing, but @mormolyke.bsky.social & I finally coaxed birds into the light well, and my cats are doing better at leaving us alone during the day while we work

Do you need publicity shots for your niche but extremely entertaining podcast? Give me money and I will give you some of those, like this one from @mormolyke.bsky.social and @leviathant.com 's podcast. (I took the picture on the postcard but not the picture of the postcard)

Ordered room service for lunch, waiter came and laid it out on the balcony table, and within 30 secs, to her horror and my delight, an enormous seagull swooped down and ate my tiramisu! 😂😂😂 This was the replacement. Fair enough, right? Every seagull should try it.

Last week vs this week, my life is weird

Stupid fucking brain, why do I always get my best flashes of inspiration/motivation half an hour before I have to stop composing and do something else? Hitting my head against a brick wall all fucking day, oh now it's 6:30PM and I have to get ready to teach, SUDDEN BREAKTHROUGH

Hey Classical Music Twitter folks: I’m keeping a Google doc of the classical music people making it over so it’s easier for us to regroup. I might miss things so feel free to ping me to get yourself added https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y9eNRRHHJwYUt13v3Q8dE0zE--Vu7kDOBt5BVlwQ1nI/htmlview

My question to the devs: Is protecting white supremacists so, so very important to you that you're willing to tank the entire platform for people like Alice?

Between playing Schubert when they finish a cycle and this goth af dryer that just appeared in my ads, Samsung are trying real hard to target me, but I just can't get past the fact their garbage rusts out and breaks in under 3 years? We switched to Speed Queen. But I do covet goth laundry appliances