by Ariana Raduege | Aug 5, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
Arthur Rudolph Grant was born in 1887 to Jeffry and Diana Grant in Jacksonville, Florida[1]. He started music at a young age, being listed as a music teacher as early as age twelve in the 1900 US census. His educational career continued, as the 1910 US census lists...
by Ariana Raduege | Jun 29, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
We’ve begun delving into the archival databases and working to form reconstructive biographies on the graduates of the Washington Conservatory of Music from 1910-1914. This unfortunately means that we don’t have a lot of the answers, but we’re using what we can find...
by Ariana Raduege | Jun 21, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
Preliminary research into some graduates from the Washington Conservatory of Music has begun, so much of my week has been spent combing through newspaper and genealogical records in search of our graduates. Before we could get into that research, however, we had to...
by Ariana Raduege | Jun 6, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
Orchestra tour took up the first week of CURI, so I am jumping straight into the Musical Geography Project straight after a week of wonderful music. Lizzie and Louis started already and will help myself and my fellow touring researchers get into the swing of things...