Interview with Sarah Hersh (Part 4)

If you’ve been tracking our conversation with composer Sarah Hersh, I bet you’re as excited as we are to learn about her other projects. Today’s our lucky day!

Diagenesis: What other projects have you been working on or will you be working on?
Sarah: One project I’m really excited about is a blog I started with another composer friend, Natalie Draper (who I went to college with), called Alphabet Soup. We always have these long phone conversations about being composers, academia, the way society sees music and the arts in general (and arts education), being women in the world of composition, etc. I think it was her idea to start a blog addressing some of our concerns, worries, hopes, problems (and sometimes just rants!) about all these things to see if there were other people out there who wanted to contribute to our conversations. We were hoping to hear other people’s thoughts, whether they agreed with us or not, and sometimes just to get advice or commiseration from people in similar situations.
    It’s been really fun, and while we haven’t quite had the discussions we would have hoped, we’re definitely moving more in that direction. We’re hoping at some point to expand the blog into a more action-oriented... thing, for lack of a better word. :) We started the blog because we wanted to DO something, instead of just talking to each other all the time, but now that we’ve started the blog, we want to take it a step further. It’s pretty slow going though, since we’re both very busy.
    Hopefully some of our “back-burner” projects will become a reality this year, but everything takes a lot of time, so we’ll see.

Diagenesis: Can you give us a preview of any of these action-oriented things or “back-burner” projects?
Sarah: I think I’m going to have to keep you guessing for now, sorry!
Diagenesis: Haha, we’ll just have to read the blog for ourselves!

Diagenesis: How about a fun question to wrap things up!?  What is in your refrigerator right now?
Sarah: Not very much. I really need to go food shopping and I have no idea what we’re having for dinner tonight- any suggestions? :) H: pizza S: good idea

Diagenesis: Well Sarah, this was great!  Thank you so much for sitting down to talk with us!
Sarah: Thank you both! This was fun! Thanks for listening to all my ramblings. :)

Another HUGE thank you to Sarah for sharing more about herself with us. If you'd like to learn more, definitely check out her blog and website.