by smithdc | May 31, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
I once heard learning equated to the way computers with dial-up service could load information on the screen. There are two separate ways in which this could occur; the first method loads information line by line and it slowly stacks to reveal a picture bar by tedious...
by Breanna Olson | May 31, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
With week one done, I think I am well into my crash course on music history of the 1920’s. I feel like I’m learning another language filled with composer names, genres, and works of music. What’s helpful though is that these “vocabulary...
by Philip Claussen | May 31, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015, Philip Claussen
After having taken a week (and a few days) to ease my way into the world of 1924 Paris, the major players in the field of music performance and composition of the time, and the scholarship that exists around these, I can confidently say that I know absolutely nothing...
by Natalie Kopp | May 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Who knew that James Joyce’s daughter and Zelda Fitzgerald were trying their hands at dance or that a single ballet such as Le Train Bleu could bring together the choreography, music, dance, writing, fashion, and visual art talents of Nijinsky, Milhaud, Diaghilev,...
by Katharina Biermann | May 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Now that a week of this summer’s research project has passed into the abyss of the past without too many casualties, I believe I can say that I am finding a rhythm for my work. There is certainly a great deal to be done, and I am realizing that the time we have...
