Dr Amy Zigler
@dramyzigler.bsky.social
Ethel Smyth scholar, new music pianist; Asst Professor of Musicology, UNC Greensboro; she/her; my views are my own and mostly have to do with women composers
UNCG School of Music is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting!! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/350...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting
The School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting to start August 1, 2026. We seek an artist/teacher wi...
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Writing advice works the best when it’s a little weird. A new book of daily prompts helps writers think expansively. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest
Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of writing advice.
newyorker.com
A very thought-provoking article about composer Ethel Smyth and the double-edged sword of being a bad-ass composer while being a woman. (My words, not the author, Leah Broad’s.) The problem of being Ethel Smyth open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...
The problem of being Ethel Smyth
I've got a new chapter out on the reception of British "women" composers
open.substack.com
"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
Reviewing Course Evaluations: The Drinking Game
“If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lo...
mcsweeneys.net
Some adults are turning to music camps as an antidote to a world of increased isolation as they decide on their summer plans.
Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups
Some adults are turning to music camps as an antidote to a world of increased isolation as they decide on their summer plans.
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The Washington Post has only a single arts critic left - everyone else got fired today, along with all three arts editors. (There are still a couple of excellent arts reporters.) I was so upset I dusted off my blog to have my say: annemidgette.com/blog/f/a-req...
A requiem for arts coverage
I used to say I wished that newspapers would treat their arts sections the way they treated their sports sections. What I meant was that sports sections offered a balanced mix of news stories, feature...
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I wrote about the movie here, if anyone is curious. (I talk about the "Gimme Shelter" stuff in a separate, smaller post, because I couldn't get it to fit in the finished piece.) www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
Melania — Andrew Jackson Lynch
For a minute there, I thought I was going to a private screening. When I bought my ticket for the 3:00 pm showing of Melania only forty minutes before showtime, every seat in the house was available...
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
pcgamer.com
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
They say to understand politics follow the money. This excellent article does that for the expanding 'civic institute' scam. Tracing the money trail leads back to a shadowy network of right-wing billionaires like the Koch family. prismreports.org/2026/01/27/c...
Right-wing plot to set up ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities
UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida are part of the effort to push conservative ideology on college students in the guise of civics education
prismreports.org
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoRep. Chris Smith: "The abortion pill -- mifepristone -- is baby poison ... we now know that the abortion bill -- we've long expected this -- is extremely dangerous to women" (this is a lie)
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
Applications are open until Tuesday 31 March for the RPS Ambache Fund, offering grants of up to £5,000 to support performers, ensembles, venues and festivals putting music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming. Find out more: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/performers/r...
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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friends and colleagues, a new AMS update: if you signed the petition, you should've received an email outlining what has happened in the last month, communications w Council and the Board, & new info. for everyone, there's new info regarding JAMS & its editorial independence
Re AMS: In case you think you'd heard it all, there's a new memo from the editors of JAMS, the flagship journal. It is striking imo that the AMS didn't provide any financial data to support their perceived threat to close it down. amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co?fbclid=IwY2x...
AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times. Jason Isbell Frank Turner Ben Folds Smyth - The Wreckers Daughters of the Revolution
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
cityam.com
Looking forward to presenting my paper, 'Love has the Victory!': Musical Representations of Female Power in Ethel Smyth's Der Wald at the AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting! #AMSMT25
A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
A Cuban man deported by the US to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says
A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
FYI - Samantha Ege and I have a new article on Julia Perry arriving online in the latest issue of @oxfordamerican.bsky.social next Tuesday! I'm so excited for this piece to be published, I think it is one of the best writing projects I've ever been a part of
35 years ago today, Deee-Lite released “Groove Is in the Heart,” a kaleidoscopic dance-floor explosion blending Herbie Hancock samples, Bootsy Collins funk, and a Q-Tip verse. With its trippy video and infectious beat, it became an instant club classic.
Genuinely, if any SE Michigander wants a tuba for this purpose, my brother bought a tuba exactly for this reason (I am not joking) and then realized he's not great at playing it. So if you want a tuba, DMs open. (A reasonable offer would be appreciated, probably.)
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · last yr.If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.
