by Breanna Olson | Jun 18, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
You might be asking yourself, “Who even is Nicholas Obuhov?” I know that’s what I first asked myself when I came across him in a general music chronology of 1924. The description indicated that he finished his score for “Le Livre de Vie”...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 18, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Newly Familiar Faces As I comb through the digitized leaves of various newspaper archives, complimentary of the French Bibliothèque Nationale, there are certain elusive figures who reappear with striking frequencies. One of these is a gentleman by the name of Feodor...
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...