Sam Dorf
@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
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.
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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.
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!
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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!
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!
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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!
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.
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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.
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!
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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!
Still at it. Practice makes better!
September 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Still at it. Practice makes better!
Fantastic event hosted by the @kettering.org to celebrate the launch of @ohiohumanities.bsky.social latest issue of Lumen with Bing Davis and a conversation with Jennie Young about applied rhetoric and dating apps
The Kettering Foundation gets it: democracy needs the arts and the humanities.
The Kettering Foundation gets it: democracy needs the arts and the humanities.
August 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Fantastic event hosted by the @kettering.org to celebrate the launch of @ohiohumanities.bsky.social latest issue of Lumen with Bing Davis and a conversation with Jennie Young about applied rhetoric and dating apps
The Kettering Foundation gets it: democracy needs the arts and the humanities.
The Kettering Foundation gets it: democracy needs the arts and the humanities.
3rd year in a row I am moving offices across campus. Somehow this time I’m feeling more nostalgic than others. I’m not switching roles, just moving, and reflecting on all my academic and pedagogical stuff that is intertwined w the personal and sentimental that make up a “professor’s campus office”
August 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
3rd year in a row I am moving offices across campus. Somehow this time I’m feeling more nostalgic than others. I’m not switching roles, just moving, and reflecting on all my academic and pedagogical stuff that is intertwined w the personal and sentimental that make up a “professor’s campus office”
That new strings feeling!
August 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
That new strings feeling!
First day back to work (OK, email) from a family vacation and YIKES was it a frustrating one! Glad to cap it off with this friend! My viol loves me unconditionally.
August 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
First day back to work (OK, email) from a family vacation and YIKES was it a frustrating one! Glad to cap it off with this friend! My viol loves me unconditionally.
Practicing not just for myself, but also with the goal of playing these awesome duos by Michael East with @shlomitsofer.bsky.social sometime soon!
July 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Practicing not just for myself, but also with the goal of playing these awesome duos by Michael East with @shlomitsofer.bsky.social sometime soon!
A pretty great Saturday:
1) Torah in the morning
2) Townhall with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
3) Trey Songz to cap it off!
1) Torah in the morning
2) Townhall with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
3) Trey Songz to cap it off!
July 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A pretty great Saturday:
1) Torah in the morning
2) Townhall with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
3) Trey Songz to cap it off!
1) Torah in the morning
2) Townhall with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
3) Trey Songz to cap it off!
I’ve been thinking, maybe if I just practice a bit every day I might actually improve my playing. 🤞
July 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I’ve been thinking, maybe if I just practice a bit every day I might actually improve my playing. 🤞
To think, I started working on this book chapter back in the Fall of 2017 and here it is in print! It was daunting to write about the scholarship on The Rite, but I enjoyed wrestling with the monumental work of so many musicologists and dance scholars. The whole book is really excellent! 🔗 👇
July 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
To think, I started working on this book chapter back in the Fall of 2017 and here it is in print! It was daunting to write about the scholarship on The Rite, but I enjoyed wrestling with the monumental work of so many musicologists and dance scholars. The whole book is really excellent! 🔗 👇
Not having much better luck today. #StillHatesMe
July 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Not having much better luck today. #StillHatesMe
Woolf Works at ABT was spectacular!
June 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Woolf Works at ABT was spectacular!
My family knows how to make Father’s Day special with plenty of black licorice!
June 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My family knows how to make Father’s Day special with plenty of black licorice!
It’s organ time! Gimme some Handel, Saint-Saëns and a new work by Derrick Skye at our hometown band, the Dayton Philharmonic!
June 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It’s organ time! Gimme some Handel, Saint-Saëns and a new work by Derrick Skye at our hometown band, the Dayton Philharmonic!
Big News:
I am running for Oakwood City Council. I love this city and our community, I love advocating for folks, and I love creative problem solving. I want to bring all of this to our city council this November!
I am running for Oakwood City Council. I love this city and our community, I love advocating for folks, and I love creative problem solving. I want to bring all of this to our city council this November!
June 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Big News:
I am running for Oakwood City Council. I love this city and our community, I love advocating for folks, and I love creative problem solving. I want to bring all of this to our city council this November!
I am running for Oakwood City Council. I love this city and our community, I love advocating for folks, and I love creative problem solving. I want to bring all of this to our city council this November!