by lacy1 | Jun 16, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Madame la Dauphine ne verra pas le beau film qu’on y a fait tirer les vers du nez car on l’a menée en terre avec son premier né en terre et à Nanterre où elle est interrée. -Le Bal Masquée Le bal masqué: Préambule et Air de Bravoure by Francis Poulenc...
by Siriana | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
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...
by devries | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
This semester, my papers have been centered around what seems like a random collection of topics: female composer Germaine Tailleferre, the Concerts Colonne, and Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon (its premiere and how course themes relate). Some...
by Alexandra Mauney | Nov 5, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Overall, I found both the articles of Dorf and Moore to be as compelling as they were shocking in their unusual analyses of the queer erotic undertones of twentieth century French music. Their angles presented me with entirely new concepts, and while I do not embrace...