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Season 5 (Spring 2026)
A new episode releases every Thursday, beginning April 23, 2026. Click on an episode name below for credits and supplementary materials (updated throughout the season).
- Episode 5.1 (April 23, 2026) - Rachel Lumsden, "SMT-Pod Student Seminar Series: Gender and Contemporary Opera (Introduction)"
- Episode 5.2 (April 30, 2026) - Aaron D'Zurilla, "Trauma and Vocal Utterances in Ellen Reid's p r i s m (2018)"
- Episode 5.3 (May 7, 2026) - Isabel Milbourn, "The Two Harriets in Thea Musgrave's Harriet, The Woman Called Moses"
- Episode 5.4 (May 14, 2026) - Zachary Simonds, "Power and Captivity in Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots"
- Episode 5.5 (May 21, 2026) - Brandon D. Scribner, "Texture, Timbre, and Instrumentation in Laura Kaminsky's As One: A Trans Narrative"
- Episode 5.6 (May 28, 2026) - Luis Matos-Tovar, "Gender and the Death Trope in Judith Weir's The Black Spider"
- Episode 5.7 (June 4, 2026) - Hang Ki Choi, "Is It Over? How Silence Frames Musical Beginnings and Endings in Arvo Pärt's 'Ludus'"
- Episode 5.8 (June 11, 2026) - Alice (Bai) Xue, "One Block to Rule Them All: The Single-Block Form in African Music"
- Episode 5.9 (June 18, 2026) - Sasha Drozzina, "Swan Lake: How the Classical Ballet Became a Political Mosh"
- Episode 5.10 (June 25, 2026) - Tan Nazare, "How Anime Opening Credits Hook You and Tell You a Story"