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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 23/09/2025

I was thinking about the LOC randomly and was like, hey whatever happened to my buddy there!? So happy to have you back on my feed!!

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Heather Reichgott @playingheather.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Concert coming up October 5 with my wonderful choir Illumine Works on a theme of migration So much beautiful stuff by Buxtehude, Shaw, @mormolyke.com , Guillaume, and more 2:30pm, Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst MA

Art by Harriet Diamond. "Would you harbor me?" Concert October 5, Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst. Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble, Arianne Abela, director

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H.Hart @hhartphotography.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Thrilled and humbled by this serendipitous opportunity...can't wait to hear the music Melissa Dunphy has composed.

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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I know it's still 2 months away, but I am so excited about New Wave Opera's upcoming production of my & Jessica Rudman's Marie Curie Learns to Swim & Alice Tierney by Jacqueline Goldfinger & Melissa Dunphy! Get your tickets (& donate!) here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Atoms & Artifacts

New Wave Opera Presents: Atoms & ArtifactsFriday, September 19, 7:30 pmSaturday, September 20, 7:30 pmSunday, September 21, 2:00 pm - includes ASL Interpretation thanks to funding from Regional Ar...

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Heather Reichgott @playingheather.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Really feeling this one Erasure Songs no. 2 Music by Melissa Dunphy Words created by Laurel Chen by erasing words from the N-400 application form for naturalization notice: any immigration notice: hearing notice: see notice: you www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjmB...

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N-400 Erasure Songs: No. 2, N-400 (an erasure)

YouTube video by Cantus - Topic

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Out of Fachs @outoffachs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I spent yesterday working on practice tracks for Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com ‘s “Wild Embers” for the feminist chorus I’m in and it is stunning.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 11/05/2025

It's the 17th C equivalent of having a German villain named Hans Gruber who is evil because of course he is.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 11/05/2025

And suddenly I realized: OHH SHIT, all those English and theater discussions about "Why is Iago in Othello so inherently eeeevil?" FUCKING DUH it's because he's Spanish, and England and Spain were doing a crazy war, with the Armada sneaking up the coast, wild Protestant v. Catholic shenanigans, etc.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 11/05/2025

I was watching something this week with a character named Santiago, and looked it up. If you are also Romance-language-challenged, Iago is James in Spanish, the patron saint of Spain, who supposedly brought Christianity to the peninsula and was buried in a Spanish church there after his martyrdom.

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Jamie Barton @jbartonmezzo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My recital at Wigmore this next week = come for the Duparc and Disney songs, and leave emotionally/molecularly changed by the Melissa Dunphy set. (No joke, half of the task of preparing this set is just feeling my emotions through it…the text is just so beautiful, and Melissa set it so perfectly!)

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 07/05/2025

Yeah, I'm catching up on old posts around here, but it's fun that your port gave me that trip down ancient memory lane 😆 I don't even act anymore since the composition career took off!

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VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Whisper it quietly, but could "Boléro" actually be... good? On Ravel's 150th birthday, read Melissa Dunphy on a masterclass in orchestration. van-magazine.com/mag/ravel-bo...

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I Know, But: Ravel's "Boléro"

In defense of an orchestration masterclass that, in the 80s, accidentally went pop.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 07/05/2025

Hahaha omg I can't believe you dredged that up ... someone came to the show the next day because he always vehemently disagreed with Zinman reviews and made a point to see everything she panned 😆 He enjoyed the show! I still crack up that a professional reviewer called me "toots" in print 💩

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Natalie Groom @nataliegroom.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today I'm listening to Chants by Melissa Dunphy, with poetry by the intriguing Rosaleen Norton. It captures mysticism, mystery, a world of fantasy, and a unique sense of spiritualality. Find Melissa's work at melissadunphy.com, and don't forget to support #womencomposers this month and always!

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/07/2024

Whoa! I wish I had space in my house among all the broken bottles 😆

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

"Rise up, tattered and torn! Rise up, barren and reborn!" It's been strange having a thing that brings me so much joy emerge in a moment of such despair, but our album is about finding connections with others through universal human experiences, so that's something, I hope. youtu.be/j91q_pxA-2M?...

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Halcyon Days

Provided to YouTube by Naxos Digital ServicesHalcyon Days · Voices of Concinnity · Jacqueline Goldfinger · Melissa DunphyAwaiting Golden Light℗ 2024 NavonaRe...

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 15/04/2024

No idea! I guess it's in the hands of the bank/police. I got a replacement check, at least!

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 28/11/2023

Cameo appearances by @leviathant.com and one of the empty cat litter buckets I used to bring genuine 19th century oyster shells to campus to be used as props

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 28/11/2023

"Alice Tierney" and "Escobar" at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts coming up this Friday and Sunday!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-_... See this awesome little promo vid shot by Rutgers film students.

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Contemporary Opera at Rutgers: "Alice Tierney" & "Escobar"

Dec. 1 & 3, 2023: Workshop performances of Rutgers faculty Melissa Dunphy's "Alice Tierney" and PhD student Matteo Neri's "Escobar"Presented by Opera Theater...

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 29/08/2023

In-process photos. It's hard to articulate how frustrating and engrossing and messy and (eventually) rewarding this is.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 29/08/2023

Give me names and I will research/consider. I challenge you. His father Augustine sealed his bottles with a similar-looking "AW." www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...

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Wine Bottle Seals

Discover more about George Washington and Mount Vernon with this collection of primary source documents from the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and others.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 29/08/2023

...and until someone gives me an alternative, I'm telling everyone GW stands for George Washington hahaha. No but seriously, come up with another rich dude hanging out in Philly in the mid 18th century who would be likely to give out monogrammed wine bottles.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 29/08/2023

The walls of this bottle were exceptionally thin, and it's slightly larger than many of the similar mallets I've handled, so it was a challenge. We can't find another example of a "GW" seal anywhere in the literature or on any seal databases...

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 29/08/2023

This bottle here is the primary reason I have spent 200+ hours in the last month jigsaw-puzzling a massive tub of green glass shards. We found and picked out just the seal when we were digging the 103 South privy, and I was hoping to find the bottle that housed it. Hard work and patience = success!!

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

I guess if you've stolen someone else's identity and opened a bank account in their name, you can deposit your stolen checks into that account to protect yourself, but OMG that seems like so much work? And are you depositing in person or via mobile? So many ways to get caught!

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

Part of the aggravation is that I'm kind of powerless—I never received the check, so technically it was stolen from the issuer, not me. Any action is in the hands of the sender, so I have to wait until they get it sorted, refunded (hopefully), and can re-issue at their end.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

Like, how are you supposed to get away with it though? You might argue that they don't care, they're just desperate, but it's a lot of work to break into a blue mailbox and wash a check—these aren't impulse crimes, so doesn't the getaway part occur to them at some point?? Make it make sense.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

It's also a federal crime and a felony, I've literally joked that if I wanted to join the Hells Angels or some other gang that asks prospective members to commit a felony as a condition of entry, I guess I would opt for stealing someone's mail

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

I honestly don't know what the game plan is for check thieves. You're depositing the check into your own bank account??? Like it's about as dumb as robbing a bank after withdrawing money from your own account and then driving away in your own car?????

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

I'm fine financially, but this has totally triggered my historical hand-to-mouth panic reflex and I wanna hunt this asshole down and scream at her in public (she endorsed the check "Luisa Martinez").

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 08/08/2023

OMFG, I've been hit by the crime wave I keep seeing in the news: some fucking mail thief stole a fat commission check addressed to me and cashed it UUUUGGGGHHHH

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 31/07/2023

A little emotional about these two. Case gin bottles are almost impossible to assemble from privy contexts; I have LEVELED UP, ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED. If that weren't exciting enough, we have our first onion bottle now too, omgggggggg. Both from the bottom of the 103 South Privy. #archaeology

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The Boghouse @theboghouse.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Melissa had a day or two free, and turned her puzzle solving skills toward the huge pile of glass we haven't processed yet, focusing at the moment at seven Chestnut bottles.

Melissa staring at a green chestnut bottle that she has reconstructed and glued together from dozens of shards

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 27/07/2023

On Saturday, at 1pm, at the historic Peter Wentz Farmstead in Lansdale, @mormolyke.com & I will be doing a talk about The Boghouse. Montgomery County itself is tweeting about this now, lol If you're able to go, please don't hesitate to say hi - follow the attached link for more information

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The Boghouse at Peter Wentz Farmstead

Saturday, July 28th at 1:00 pm ?The Boghouse at the Peter Wentz Farmstead In 2015 Matt and Melissa Dunphy bought a magic theater in Old City Philadelphia, and while adding a third story to it, disco...

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 05/07/2023

I earned nearly twice as much money selling earrings made of 250yo cow teeth on Etsy in December 2020 hahahahahahaa (I still have some, if interested: shop.thehannah.org)

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The Boghouse Gift Shop

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 05/07/2023

I am struggling to finish a very overdue commission, and have been kinda down on myself this week, but I just saw this piece from @katewagner.bsky.social and have been laughing my ass off for 5 min at this paragraph—I feel so much better!

The sheer scale of the hype inflation came to light in May. In the same article, Insider revealed that Decentraland, arguably the largest and most relevant Metaverse platform, had only 38 active daily users. The Guardian reported that the monetized content ecosystem in Meta’s flagship product Horizon Worlds produced no more than $470 in revenue globally. Thirty-eight active users. Four hundred and seventy dollars. You’re not reading those numbers wrong. To say that the Metaverse is dead is an understatement. It was never alive.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 04/07/2023

when movies get deleted for tax reasons, they should legally become public domain. people should be allowed to upload it anywhere they want. that's the tradeoff you make if you wanna delete your own movie released this year for a few extra bucks, and i think it's fair

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 04/07/2023

SUPER SUPER pleased with this performance of "Sailing Away" by In Medio in Portland! 😍😍😍😍 Always fun when you are actually happy to have your own music stuck in your head lol soundcloud.com/mormolyke/sailing-aw…

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Sailing Away - Melissa Dunphy - performed by In Medio

Sheet music available at https://melissadunphy.com/composition.php?id=111

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 04/07/2023

I'm still convinced that the Phanatic inspired the monster at the end of Stephen King's The Library Policeman

Then it began to change again, and Sam's feeling of relief faded. It did not have
a face, exactly, but below the bulging blue eyes, a horn shape began to extrude
itself, pushing out of the horror-show face like a stubby elephant's trunk. The
eyes stretched away to either side, becoming first Chinese and then insectile.

Sam could hear it sniffing as it stretched toward him.

It was covered with wavering, dusty threads.

Part of him wanted to pull back - was screaming at him to pull back - but most of
him wanted to stand his ground. And as the thing's fleshy proboscis touched him,
Sam felt its deep power. A sense of lethargy filled him, a feeling that it would be
better if he just stood still and let it happen. The wind had become a distant,
dreamy howl. It was soothing, in a way, as the sound of the vacuum cleaner had
been soothing when he was very small.

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 03/07/2023

Who needs the Thames? After a good rain, we can mudlark in the dog park across the street from our home in Philly! We always spot 18th- and 19th-century sherds, likely churned up from demolished privies and dumped back into the ground when the adjacent stretch of I-95 was built in the late 1970s

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 03/07/2023

One of my cats has made her feelings about the halibut stuffy known, and the halibut stuffy also has some feelings about it

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 03/07/2023

𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

NEW: Renton's a trans man. HIs mom — Miss Illinois 1996 — is a MAGA influencer traveling the US calling the existence of trans people 'demonic' It’s Renton’s turn to speak www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-son-of…

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 01/07/2023

Absolute bullshit that everything in life takes longer than it should. "Oh I should dust." Three hours later, still dusting—it would be quicker to burn this house down than get rid of all the dust jfc. Self driving cars? What fucking use are they, don't have time to go anywhere, still dusting

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 30/06/2023

Better to die on a hill than a mountain

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Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com · 29/06/2023

But think of the WHITE MEN, poor things, dying in the cold with their appendages falling off because they willingly paid a reckless guide $100K each to take them to the "death zone"

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