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Scott M Williamson
Oct 26, 202111 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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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Scott M Williamson
Jun 10, 20217 min read
"Artful practices for Well-Being"
My title refers to a MoMA COVID-era "playlist" in a recent Artforum feature on a new book about the surrealist feminist artist: The...
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Scott M Williamson
May 26, 20212 min read
Renewal and Healing: Music Therapy
Check out the announcement below for more on a special "Listening to Paintings"! Collective Euphonia presents: Listening to Paintings:...
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Scott M Williamson
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Creative writing: the cento
Below is a draft of a new poem which honors a vital modern poet, one of the most difficult and urgent lyric voices of the 20th century....
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Scott M Williamson
Nov 5, 202010 min read
Distant Immortal Beloved
Below are the notes on the recital I'll be sharing via WLU's Livestream, Saturday Nov 7 at 8 pm (ET). I hope you can tune in to this...
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Scott M Williamson
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Creativity during Crisis: 1918-1920 (Part I)
Like me, do you find yourself interested in how creatives responded to the global pandemic 100 years ago during the Spanish Flu of...
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Scott M Williamson
Jun 10, 20201 min read
International Abolition Day
After posting on FB about the presentation I shared in Romania this past December, I realized I hadn't shared its contents here, for...
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Scott M Williamson
Apr 17, 20208 min read
Playlists for Patrick...
(Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable at the Taubman Museum of Art, in "Pop Power" one of his last exhibits.) Memorial Poems and a Mixtape for Patrick...
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Scott M Williamson
Feb 22, 20204 min read
The “three-way game” of Art
"Great art has dreadful manners." So begins Simon Schama's Art (Vintage). "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you... Merciless...
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Scott M Williamson
Jan 17, 20201 min read
#Top10 artist list | Fall/Winter 2019/20
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Children, sculpture group, Muzeul de Arte, Timisoara (10.19) #MuzeuldeArte, Timisoara (10.19) Pop Up | Magdalena...
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Scott Williamson
Oct 19, 20193 min read
Friday afternoon in Timișoara
After a self-guided walking tour of a pair of the city's squares or Piața (like Piazza in Italian), I'm glad I stopped in the Art Museum...
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Scott Williamson
Sep 24, 20192 min read
Collective Euphonia debut: Arise My Love
So excited and grateful after the debut residency of @CollectiveEuphonia, a new flexible ensemble of performing and creative artists for...
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