S1E74: Melissa Dunphy

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12/08/21 • 87 min

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Melissa Dunphy is an award-winning and acclaimed composer specializing in vocal, political, and theatrical music. Melissa is a composer who would be amongst the first to tell you that, if you want to be a composer, you need to write what you're passionate about. After the premiere of her large-scale choral work the Gozales Cantata, her career took off, and she wants to share her vision with the world.

Featured pieces:
Come, My Tan-Faced Children | Performed by Raehann Bryce-Davis, Laura Ward, Min-Young Kim, Tim Ressler
More Milk, More Milk Makes it Better (from American DREAMers) | Performed by the Singers
Tesla’s Pigeon movements III and IV (orchestral version) | Performed by Jessica Lennick and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, cond. Kensho Watanabe
Intro to The Boghouse

Where to find Melissa Dunphy, her music, and The Boghouse:
Website | Twitter | Facebook
The Boghouse

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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Where to find Melissa Dunphy, her music, and The Boghouse:
Website | Twitter | Facebook
The Boghouse

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

Listen to this episode ad-free by supporting The Composer Chronicles on Patreon.

Previous Episode

S1E73: La vie de bohème - Puccini and La bohème

You never fully understand what someone is going through unless you've lived it yourself. What makes Puccini's opera La bohème so powerful is that so many of its creators went through the same hardships that the characters of the opera went through.

Theme music is by Daryl Banner

Music used in this episode:
"Quando m'en vo'" (orchestral version) from La bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Caught in the Waves by Trevor Kowalski
Divine by Amaranth Cove
For Those Who Know by Gavin Luke
Lion's Drift by Trevor Kowalski
Night Sky Alive by Trevor Kowalski
Look Down When You're Ready by Trevor Kowalski

Sources used in this episode:
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Puccini: A Biography (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002).

Next Episode

S1E75: Stephen Ryan Jackson

In a world where music has time and time again been given narrative, Stephen Ryan Jackson uses his music to explore the mundane.

Featured pieces:
i can feel the universe expanding | solo voice + electronics
Tooth Necklace | flute + bass clarinet + violin + cello + piano + percussion
rinse & repeat | soprano saxophone + double bass + two percussion

Where to find Stephen Ryan Jackson and his music:
Website | Instagram
SoundCloud

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

Listen to this episode ad-free by supporting The Composer Chronicles on Patreon.