British Library Finds

It’s been a full day: morning and afternoon at the British Library, evening at the opening events of the conference I’m attending here. Highlights included: – Looked at letters written to Walter Leigh, an English composer who died fighting the...

Bonjour, let’s begin…

As yet another enthusiastic member of our eclectic CURI team, I am eager to get started mapping musical geography! The final product of our project, an interactive map to contextualize the music scene of 1924 Paris, will be used as a teaching tool and research aid,...

What are we doing and why am I here?

For the next 10 weeks, I am excited to work alongside four brilliantly intelligent people to discover the musical geography of Paris in 1924. Together, we will create a dynamic map and timeline that should act as a useful resource for anyone interested in the topic....

What I Learned in Summer School Is…

Hi. I’m Derek Smith. I am working with a CURI team at St. Olaf College on a project that is loquaciously entitled “The Musical Geography of Nineteen-Twenty Four Paris”. The goal of my peers is to essentially map the musical soundscape of this very specific time period...

How do I fit in?

As someone looking to move into the world of music education, it might be somewhat odd to think that I would be working on an archival research project on 1924 Paris, even if it does focus on the music scene of the time. However, I have done a fair amount of prior...