The Music Teacher

Composer. Organist. Pedagogue. Nadia Boulanger is widely regarded as one of the most influential music teacher’s of the 20th century.  Her teaching position at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau helped mold a new generation of American composers,...

Welcome to the Musical Geography Project.

Project Overview My colleagues and I want to change the way you think about music using Musical Geography. But what exactly is Musical Geography? As we understand it, Music Geography is the exploration of the intersection of time, space, and sound using mapping...

It’s Alive!

Question of the day: how often will I feel like Victor Frankenstein while I work on CURI this summer? The latest task of formatting data from over 200 premiers was monstrous, however, when we finally uploaded our information into the first draft of a map, I had a...

Slaying the Data Dragon

The mountain of information I had compiled into my spreadsheet seemed insurmountable. By the time I had finished the first three readings we were assigned, I had already collected over 50 locations to map. I felt a bit like Hercules facing the Hydra. My previous map...

And so it begins…

Our mission (should we choose to accept it) consists of mapping the life and times of Darius Milhaud, with a particular focus on the time he spent in Germany. What statement does his relationship with different publishing companies make about the changing national...