by hynes1 | Jun 17, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
As one of my individual projects, I have set myself on the task of cataloging and mapping all of the Ballets Russes and Ballet Suédois performances (I am wishing myself Godspeed). One of the benefits of this is that I get to rationalize looking at websites that have...
by hynes1 | Jun 17, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
I don’t mean to say that Disney princesses aren’t great and inspiring (except Aurora, what did you even do? Sleep? Great role model, Disney), but often their merits are accompanied by the picturesque fairy-tale. They are all heterosexual, most of them are...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Jun 17, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
“My greatest claim to fame is that I discovered Bricktop before Cole Porter [did].” -F. Scott Fitzgerald Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (known more commonly as “Bricktop” due to her red hair) was an American singer, dancer, and jazz-club...
by Sam Parker | Jun 16, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
Of all the composers at the fore of the early twentieth century, Ravel is one of the most well known. While Poulenc, Milhaud, and Honegger are familiar names among musicologists, Ravel and Debussy have achieved a place in the general public’s vocabulary. Most...
by Stella Li | Jun 16, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
“It would even be dangerous for composers systematically to ignore the productions of their foreign colleagues and thus to form a sort of national coterie: our musical art, so rich in the present epoch, would quickly degrade and enclose itself in...
