Scott M Williamson
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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Scott M Williamson
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Art for Life's Sake
I've been sharing recently about my mental health journey. Below those posts you'll find one called "Renewal and Healing," which speaks...
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Scott M Williamson
- Aug 26, 2021
- 4 min
Still Touched With Fire
(I started calling this mental health awareness blog, Memoirs of My Madness. Not sure about that title now, but this is the next post.)...
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Scott M Williamson
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
Hello darkness my old friend
Memoirs of my very own madness, Part 2: Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend [*This is the second in a series of memoir-essays on mental...
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Scott M Williamson
- Aug 16, 2021
- 3 min
Memoirs of my very own madness, Part 1
Memoirs of my journeys with mental illness across the Commonwealth and beyond, beginning when I was not yet 14… The summer of 1985...
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Scott M Williamson
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
Memoirs of my very own madness
This article by David Antrim affected me so powerfully when I read it last night, and so paralleled some of my own experiences (I wept...
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