La Princesse de Polignac: Defender of Modernism

  In Alex Ross’s book The Rest is Noise, he paints a fascinating picture of the musical life of the twentieth century. He interweaves detailed descriptions of composers, patrons, venues, and music theory to explore what the twentieth century might have...

When in doubt, make a map!

It’s amazing how it can take almost two weeks to really develop the goals of a project. I have discovered that it is through active work that we seem do the best learning and growing. I think even after these last weeks of intensive research, we will still be...

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...

Premieres Galore

Today we got to see the result of our hard work on the data cleaning that we did all day yesterday. We pulled together the spreadsheets of compiled premieres for four different composers – Honneger, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Poulenc – to create a...