Writing
Leah writes for a wide variety of outlets on women's history, and on classical music. She has a regular column in Choir & Organ, and you can follow her on Substack here. She is open to commissions for features, profiles and reviews. Some of her recent writing is below.
- Conservatoires need cultural change to fix their misconduct crisis, OperaNow
- Fashion, Fabrics & Fishtails: Why we need to talk about performers' clothes, The Guardian
- "My old uncastrated wild cat": Ethel Smyth and Virginia Woolf, The London Magazine
- Cassandra Miller: "People only really write music for their friends, right?", The Financial Times
- How apartheid shaped classical music, The New Statesman
- Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at Glyndebourne, OperaNow
- Classical Music's Women Problem, The Daily Telegraph
- Conductor Alice Farnham on Imogen Holst, Choir & Organ
- Static Opulence: On Frederick Delius's worldliness, The London Review of Books
- Time's Echo: Music as Witness to the Holocaust and History, The Financial Times
- Composer of the Month: Imogen Holst, BBC Music Magazine
- Rachmaninoff's Enduring Melodies: 150 years of Rachmaninoff, The New Statesman
- Composer of the Month: Ruth Gipps, BBC Music Magazine
- Hisako Kawamura is rediscovering music and rethinking concert programmes, Bachtrack
- Composer of the Month: Rebecca Clarke, BBC Music Magazine
- Out of the Woods: On recording Ethel Smyth's second opera Der Wald, VAN Magazine
- Composer of the Month: Doreen Carwithen, BBC Music Magazine
- Without Ethel Smyth and classical music's forgotten women, we only tell half the story, The Guardian