Catherine Dalton, Author at Catherine Dalton, composer

Catherine’s Big Love Fest — and loss, of course, because they are never far apart

March 6, 2025

Stay in the loop + access ACDA 2025 perusal scores → About The Project I invite you to contribute to this deeply personal, but also universal exploration of love and…

Summer Still on Earth

September 22, 2024

Solstice was a few days ago and we are now fully in the season of autumn! I can taste it in the air and see it in the colors of…

Ummm… ok… sure…

November 9, 2022

As an artist, I feel like I’m always collaborating with my muse. That voice that gives me compositional and lyrics ideas I never would have come up with myself! She’s…

Demolishing and Building Anew: Making Meaning out of Chaos

September 8, 2022

What is the relationship between demolishing and building new? Or, here’s a related question: How does Catherine deal with change? The answer to the second question is, Not so well, which…

Converging Consciousness: A Plant & Human Co-Creation

June 8, 2022

View Score & Purchase (coming soon!) About A couple of years ago, I listened. I listened to a small voice that asked me to tune in more deeply to our…

Music and Poetry as a Way Forward

March 10, 2022

I’ve been hearing from folks recently that they feel a bit helpless. We go about our lives each day, as we must, because to shut down completely doesn’t help. As…

Finding Kindness

March 2, 2022

In the following blog, I will be talking about the war in Ukraine. Feel free to make a decision that feels right to you about continuing to read. March 2-4,…

How Kate Bush Saved Me!

November 8, 2021

One thing I love about hanging out with people, especially people of varying ages, is that I get inspired! Because where do composers get ideas? Anywhere and everywhere they can!…

Telling the Whole Story: Bold and Radical Lyrics

November 1, 2021

Why do we know more about Alice Paul’s contemporary, Ghandi, than about Alice Paul? The Alice Paul who put women’s suffrage on the front page of newspapers, making it impossible…

They did what? Missing Stories of Powerful Women from the American Suffragist Movement

October 18, 2021

It’s kind of odd to think about now, but when I was growing up, I really did not question the role models that were put in front of me. Even…