Nurses in Opera – 6 Oct 2024
First in a Series of Ten Blogs offering A Short History of Nursing from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century. Part 1 – From Sacred to Secular – covers nursing in…
Nurses in Opera – 14 Sep 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 24 Aug 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 4 Aug 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 14 Jul 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
Nurses in Opera – 22 Jun 2024
A series of five Blogs discussing the literary component of the story of Judith found in the Apocrypha in light of composer Alexander Serov’s own professed expectations for opera, to…
British Women Organists – 20 Jan 2024
Organist Elizabeth Stirling’s Burial Site Last summer when on a trip to England, I finally saw nineteenth-century British organist Elizabeth Stirling’s final resting place. Eilzabeth Stirling at the Organ…
British Women Organists – 30 Oct 2021
Tales of Sound and Seduction: Organists in Nineteenth-Century British Novels Part 2 Unlike its sister keyboard instrument the piano, the organ has not been the focus of research on music…
British Women Organists – 10 Oct 2021
Tales of Sound and Seduction: Organists in Nineteenth-Century British Novels Part 1 Unlike its sister keyboard instrument the piano, the organ has not been the focus of research on music…
British Women Organists – 22 Aug 2021
Organ Benches and Bicycle Seats: Pedalists in Victorian England Part 2 Bicycle Seats As the nineteenth century progressed, English women benefited from increasingly liberal social attitudes about their education, physical…