![]() Alchemical Symbolism in Mozart, the paper that formed the base for my pre-concert lecture for the San Francisco Opera's production of The Magic Flute. Alas, the set design and costumes ( as whimsical and fantastic as they were) did not heed the Alchemical Tradition described in the paper. |
Music and the Underworld touches on the theme of the archetypal journey of descent in Dante's Divine Comedy and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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![]() One of my great professional joys was receiving a standing ovation from my peers and professors for my presentation at a Myth Conference in 2012 on my paper, "Crones in the Corner: The Survival of the Pagan Sibyls in Christian European Art and Music" . To read the fruits of my research in Italy, click here
![]() As part of the master's exams, we were asked to explore the presence of archetypes and Jungian concepts in contemporary culture. I choose the Broadway Musical "Wicked". To read click here
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![]() Before I became involved with the San Francisco Opera's production of Mark Adamo's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, I was intending to write my PhD dissertation on Salome. Someone else should still take this project on!
Click here to read Unveiling Salome: The Loss and Reclamation of the Embodied Feminine ![]() The Lyre and the Drum is an examination of the history of Western Classical music in light of Frederich Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy.
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