Sympathy for the Attorney General
October 2009
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The first hint that music doctoral student Melissa Dunphy had that the upcoming performance of The Gonzales Cantata might be more than a moderate success came from a violinist’s mom, who had called her daughter’s cell the night of the dress rehearsal. “I just saw you on Fox News,” she reported.
Dunphy had composed the musical work and would be conducting a group of 30 musicians and singers whom she had recruited for performances at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September. The wave of publicity had already been building with brief mentions in Harpers and The Atlantic, and longer stories in the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and other news outlets. Then Dunphy’s husband got an alert on his iPhone that MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow had tweeted her 1.2 million Twitter followers about The Gonzales Cantata.
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