Scott M Williamson
Altneu (Old-New)
The theme of this post was inspired by our students, whose final project was to create a collage connecting their experiences abroad in...
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Scott M Williamson
- May 16
- 4 min
"Our soul should be this eye."
2024 marks the 150th birthday of "the enigma of modern music." Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) was a composer who expressed surprise when...
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Scott M Williamson
- May 14
- 3 min
Prague Spring, 2023
Our 20+ students and their pair of world-winded professors just spent four nights in Prague. Here's an abridged photo journal of a few...
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Scott M Williamson
- May 8
- 3 min
Death mask with Cherry Compote, or Beethoven & the doghouse
An amazing weekend continued Sunday at the Beethoven Museum in Heiligenstadt, one of the small hillside suburbs of Vienna known for its...
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Scott M Williamson
- May 7
- 3 min
Saturday in Vienna
6 May 2023. I didn't remember today was Coronation Day until I saw it on a TV outside "Jews' Square" in Vienna. I experienced the "pomp...
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Scott M Williamson
- Feb 26
- 2 min
February Notebooks
(Feb 23) Collective Euphonia, Lenfest Center, WLU, Jan 2023. L-R: Corey Crider, Julia Goudimova, Amy Scurria, Sandra Adans Krueger, SMW,...
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Scott M Williamson
- Jan 24
- 8 min
It's complicated...
Chansonnier (Songbook) of Jean de Montchenu (c.1470) To be honest, the last several months have been rough. For those who've followed my...
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Scott M Williamson
- Oct 29, 2022
- 7 min
24 Winter Journeys...
(Joan Eardley, Catterline in Winter) Here are my notes for this weekend's performance of Schubert's Winterreise. If you can't make it to...
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Scott M Williamson
- Aug 18, 2022
- 2 min
gods, poems, et al...
One of my ongoing creative projects is making new versions of classic poems and myths. It's especially fun to adopt, adapt, update or...
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Scott M Williamson
- Aug 4, 2022
- 4 min
Someone in a tree...
...one in an ongoing series of mental health posts... 2011 was an eventful one. It was the first time I’d been fired after 20 years on...
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Scott M Williamson
- Jul 28, 2022
- 3 min
Musical promenaders...
I've been writing the occasional mental health post here over the past year. Last time I shared a bit about the challenges of Summer for...
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Scott M Williamson
- Jul 15, 2022
- 6 min
Antigonick a neck...
As I resume my mental health blog here (see below), I want to share some cultural content, in the form of a short tribute to Anne...
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Scott M Williamson
- Jul 7, 2022
- 3 min
...the obligation to express
a mental health post... Sharing a Samuel Beckett quote on fb yesterday reminded me to express myself here. It has been a minute since...
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Scott M Williamson
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
catching up with ourselves
Here are a few drafts of poems I've been working on, along with some favorite images... (Bermudas, for Alice and co.; acrylic and coffee...
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Scott M Williamson
- Feb 19, 2022
- 3 min
Semper dolens, semper Dowland...
"Always, sad, always Dowland." Feb 20 is John Dowland's Yahrzeit (1563-1626). His melancholy Elizabethan-era lute songs are the OG...
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Scott M Williamson
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
Museum Studies: Fashioning the Future...
(Ruth E. Carter's special exhibit at the Taubman Museum of Art: "Afrofuturism in Costume Design") I'm having a blast teaching Museum...
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Scott M Williamson
- Oct 26, 2021
- 11 min
A Gothic Romance: a Halloween recital
(Schubert by Gustav Klimt) Here are the program contents, including notes and translations for the recital my Collective Euphonia...
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Scott M Williamson
- Oct 14, 2021
- 5 min
Classical Halloween playlists...
Whether you'd find a playlist like this on Spotify, I can't say. This one is from the History of Western Music curriculum. It's a curated...
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Scott M Williamson
- Sep 25, 2021
- 6 min
Mania and Medication, or "Raiding the symptoms"
Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me. (An Unquiet Mind, p. 97) Kay Redfield Jamison is one...
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Scott M Williamson
- Sep 19, 2021
- 3 min
darkness awaits the new... (mental health memoirs, part 4)
When depression and anxiety co-exist, and they take turns messing with your mind, it can be particularly challenging. These mixed...
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