@sndorf.bsky.social
professor of musicology working in musicology, dance history, and VERY early music. Cheerleader for the Humanities at the University of Dayton. he/him ✡️ צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף
Yeah!!!!
30.11.2025 23:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0CFP: Feminist Theory and Music 18 in Dayton, Ohio (June 2026)!
Deadline is 8 December!
www.femtheorymusic.org/ftmu/confere...
It’s chilly so here is a #hedgehog in a winter sweater
28.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I think so! I love Max Feldman’s music and it was exciting to think about it as related to Sappho as well as the performances of NCB.
19.11.2025 23:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have a little piece on in this collection titled: "Amplifying Sappho: Lesbian Musicians and the Echoes of Antiquity." It looks at Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) and Max Feldman's (1945-2007) amplifications of Sappho in music while thinking about identity, space, and time.
19.11.2025 23:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity, edited by Emily Pillinger-Avlamis and Miranda Stanyon is now available online! The physical copies will be ready to purchase for Holiday shopping!
19.11.2025 23:08 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It’s me!
08.11.2025 05:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks! I know it’s a cliche to say that I’m humbled and honored, but it’s true! It’s really exciting to have the opportunity to do this work for our community!
08.11.2025 05:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey UD folks, this is tomorrow night, and these humanities faculty are truly amazing! I’ve watched this project develop over the past few months, from the initial brainstorming sessions to the final technical dress rehearsal and I am so excited for this to come to life tomorrow!
30.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But seriously: we are fighting their negativity and xenophobia with a positive ideas-driven campaign. Every time I see a negative ad, I make a small donation to a local non-profit: the Oakwood Inclusion Coalition
www.oakwoodic.org
I like how they used my Purim and Halloween costumes in their attack ad. I was a medieval cat playing a rebec last Halloween for my sacred early music history course students.
22.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0CfP: Feminist Theory and Music 18
Theme: "Movement, Musicking, and Migrations"
Conference Dates: June 4-6, 2026
Location: Roger Glass Center for the Arts, University of Dayton, (Dayton, OH)
proposals due November 24, 11:59 pm Pacific (GMT-8) forms.gle/F2T4uhXGZkEE...
Breaking: MIT becomes the first to outright reject President Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education": www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
10.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, Samantha Langley for the idea of hosting a University of Dayton Book Authors' Celebration! It was great to learn about the exciting and diverse research my colleagues have done and to talk everyone's ear off about our lovely choreomusicology book!
03.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating a Buffalo-Born Titan of the French Baroque Revival www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...
21.09.2025 00:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I actually am running for city council here in my lovely city:
www.samforoakwood.com
FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are:
Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep
Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct
And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it.
(AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)
… and actually mean it.
02.09.2025 01:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A man’s hand holding a viola da gamba bow
Still at it. Practice makes better!
02.09.2025 00:06 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I really love Jonas Kaufmann's performance of "Im Treibhaus." Sure they were written for a woman's voice, but Kaufmann brings a different kind of vulnerability to this setting.
youtu.be/Hzi9oEdVPCQ?...
Try chocolate covered prunes right from the fridge!
01.09.2025 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The writer of this NY Times article that focuses on a *single painting* interviewed numerous people but not one art historian or art critic. Just shows that many still don't recognize the specialized knowledge & tools used to interpret historical works of art www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
31.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 334 🔁 52 💬 15 📌 7Yesterday I taught my BIG music class (300 students) and I performed two pieces that absolutely need to be programmed together more often: John Cage’s 4’33” and Marin Marais’s Les Voix Humaines.
29.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why are museums full of artifacts and stories from the past? Why don’t museums include things from the future? These are questions everyone has, not just me, Donald J Trump. I have been to a museum even once and, more important, understand how linear time works www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
21.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 300 🔁 54 💬 10 📌 5
‘For Ian Penman, Satie is more than a joker. He is the supreme practitioner of a species of art forever undervalued by solemn-minded dullards, and which is anything but trivial.’
@jonathancoe.bsky.social on Erik Satie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
