I haven't been on here in a minute, just dropping by to share my latest, somewhat melancholy newsletter: "California Dreaming" mailchi.mp/9df8cea04108...

Question for music engraving folks: When Finale announced their discontinuing around this time last year, what way did most folks decide to go? Dorico? Sibelius? Musescore? (Asking for a MT composer friend who needs to transfer a large piano-vocal score from Finale into a supported platform)

My colleague Hillary Nordwell and I are celebrating 20 years of collaboration this season! Join us today at 3pm PDT for our recital program "Nature, the gentlest mother" streaming here: www.youtube.com/live/cugAooL...

It's my birthday today! If you feel like celebrating with me, give a listen to my favorite thing I've ever made: youtu.be/a8numSieQ-g?...

Skeet a PERFECT album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam

There's this area where dogs can go swimming and they have this adorable "library" of sticks and I literally had tears welling up behind my eyes as I watched their joyful paddling and fetching. It didn't feel appropriate to take pictures of the dogs but there were so many! My glee was overwhelming.

I just walked around Fresh Pond in Cambridge while I waited for my car to get fixed and there were so many dogs and I had to restrain myself from outwardly expressing my glee and it was like having a mild panic attack for 45 minutes. So many dogs! I want to pet them all!!!

Hungarian is a super fun language to sing in. I can't believe I've been afraid to try it for all these years! Grateful for performance opportunities that push me out of my comfort zone. #bartok #folksongs

When your calendar reminder says "Crown Fitting in 5 Minutes" your life is about to be way less glamorous than it might seem.

I'm still reverberating from this concert - it was SO GOOD. I basically wept silently through the entire Copland, pulled myself together during intermission, and then silently wept through the Mendelssohn 😭🥰 It was cleansing on a profound level. #musicheals #livemusic #chambermusic

Very excited to take in the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra's "Light & Landscape" in Chatham, MA later today - Mendelssohn Octet and Appalachian Spring for 13 Musicians on the same program, and with my true love playing viola?! Be still my heart! www.tickettailor.com/events/capec...

I just witnessed my 70 y/o voice student sing her first ever solo recital and she KILLED. A full hour program of art song in three languages, brilliantly and skillfully delivered. What a rush! We've been working together since September 2024. I couldn't be more proud!

It only took 6 days in the Bay Area for our rental car to have a window smashed. Luckily nothing was in it because we know better. Broad daylight, bustling neighborhood. Grr

This Sunday in Berkeley CA I'm moonlighting with quite frankly some of the best musicians on this here planet. SF Bay Area folks, I urge you to come out for this swoon-worthy (and FREE) program of music from the Baroque period! www.annmosssoprano.com/calendar/202...

Milestone Reached: today was the first day someone replied "they're on your face" when I was freaking out and couldn't find my glasses.

When my students have a cough or lose their voice, I always tell them the same thing: Rest is your work now. Treat it like a job. Turns out I’m terrible at taking my own advice. I really don't know rest at all. NEWSLETTER: I've Looked at Rest From Both Sides Now - mailchi.mp/d059b98dec8a...

Post a song from the year you turned 12. *this one seems especially fitting for #thesetimes youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?...

Spending this whole week coaching an intensive cabaret workshop with about 18 adult vocalists all singing Sondheim solos/duets/trios and I am AGOG

Today my 70 y/o student sang through all the rep for her 8/16 song recital (her first ever & she's rocking it) and my 78 y/o student performed her one-woman show about becoming a grandmother, including singing parts we worked on in her lessons. This beauty is what I'm choosing to focus on tonight.

All the swear words

Four days back on HRT and it's sort of remarkable how *much* I'm feeling. Like, was I not noticing how much I *wasn't* feeling? It's hard to say. I understand depression can be a side effect of #perimenopause but I wouldn't have identified myself as suffering from it. But wow - I am Feeling stuff!

I'm "I dropped my husband's CPAP reservoir and the hinge broke but I can't find the right strength reading glasses to see well enough to try to glue it back together" years old

Circling back to my HRT post from early April: an insurance snafu (emphasis on the "f - u") resulted in a 6-week lapse in access to my hormone prescriptions. I'm finally resuming treatment today, eager to get this train back on the rails. #perimenopause

Tolkien and Star Trek. So like, basically my whole personality?

That music is music - the concept of high/low art is a crock of sh°t (also that 6/8 tends to drag if you don't feel the larger beat)

I gave myself two full days of vocal rest this weekend, after nearly 7 weeks of coughing & having to teach/practice/perform on swollen cords. Oh My Goodness -- rehearsing this evening felt soooo good! Rest is the best!

My phone keeps correcting "anyhow" to "anybop" and I'm just going with it.

I'm in Amherst MA for a brief residency and it's just so freaking pretty here.

When I watch this video I can see fear behind my eyes and I hear sadness in my voice. But I also see the beauty of friends making art together. In a time of grief, we created something exquisite. NEWSLETTER: "Summer Preview - Singing through the centuries" mailchi.mp/e36a5d184326...

There's a program on the MIT radio station called "Subject To Change" where they play the original and then a bunch of cover versions of the same song all in a row and it scratches a very particular mental itch I didn't know other people had. Also this cover kicks ass: youtu.be/DXAlgPMvL6Q?...

I don't want to disappoint my mom and all her friends who helped raised me, but I'm pretty sure I deeply dislike Leonard Cohen. Like, not just his music but who he was as a person.

so many leaf blowers

Today is the first morning since Easter that I've woken up without fits of coughing and/or feeling like I've swallowed glass. Soooo ready to start working on the massive pile of music I've left gathering dust. So many dots to learn! Let's go!!!

In third grade our classroom teacher read Where The Red Fern Grows aloud to us and the entire class lost our shit when the dogs died. But also the whole book is just full of brutal descriptions of raccoon hunting. It scarred us all and remains notorious among my peer group to this day.

I've been sick since Easter with a horrid virus that ended in what my mother would call a "lusty" chest cough: 2 solid weeks of hacking. I'm not yet fully better but tonight I was able to watch TV while lying down next to my husband and I could breathe and you know it really is the little things.

DADDY ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE MARRIED BENEATH HIM, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID

When the world around us seems chaotic and unsafe, it’s easy to forget that we have agency over our expression, and that our expression has POWER. You have a voice. And you get to choose how you use it. MAY 2025 NEWSLETTER: "Sing With Me This Summer" mailchi.mp/aa2539986fca...

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Have any of my fellow singers here taken benzonatate / Tessalon Perles for cough? Curious if it helped, or if anyone has experienced negative side effects?

Being sick blows. I spent the day croaking my at students over Zoom and cancelling the concert trip I've been looking forward to most all season 😭

I just asked Google whether bumblebees are aggressive and the results were a bit of a mixed message. This particular bumblebee, on the other hand, is sending explicitly clear signals. 🐝😟

Losing my voice is so weird. For the first 6-8 hours it's total panic and I'm trying all the things to get my cords to phonate and then after maybe 10-12 hours I sort of nestle into the silence and accept that I'm just gonna be mute until my body decides it's time to make sound again.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

The Easter Bunny brought me an upper respiratory infection and I'm doing my best to plow through this week of teaching and prep for a mid-day recital on Friday and I just gotta say this hump-day is feeling particularly humpy and not in a good way 😷😖

In 2013 an attack occurred at the Boston Marathon, killing 3 people and injuring hundreds. Written by Kev Choice to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the bombing, THE DISTANCE celebrates distance runners and the inspiration we gain from witnessing their trials and triumphs. youtu.be/CQJSUz03IHo?...

You guys look at the lovely treats @alisoneales.com sent me all the way from Glasgow! This is the positive power of social media - we connected over a random skeet about Richard Scarry and now I have beautiful new music to listen to and a new friend across the pond!

A movie that takes place where you're from *story takes place in and around Concord, MA where I grew up (one town over) though this scene was filmed in Groton, MA (where I currently work)

This is the kind of content that makes insomnia worth it 👇🐑💗

If you see this, post something pink

#perimenopause #realtalk : After being told for years "you're way too young to be in peri-" I finally got a NP to really listen to my symptoms and prescribe HRT. I'm 48, started noticing changes in 2019, haven't had a period in 9 months. Today is my 3rd day on estrogen patch and oral progesterone. 🧵