by perkin1 | Jul 5, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
We are now up to 321 entries in our Milhaud performances spreadsheet. (Take a look here: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-mSTi7F4Cw8WLE2q_qfRpJaAy-YzghOioJlrI2aPmbk/edit#gid=0>) But how did we get all this information? We’ve used a...
by Siriana | Jul 5, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
From Spreadsheet to Map Cataloging over 300 performances of Darius Milhaud’s music in one week is no small feat. Our research team spent all of last week locked in the library, feverishly racing to compile as much data as possible so that we could show you this… Okay,...
by lacy1 | Jul 5, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Tomorrow at 2:25 pm I embark on a research adventure to the City of Lights! I am crossing the Atlantic to navigate a totally different research world, armed with little more than a letter from Professor Epstein, a friendly smile, and two years of French language...
by lacy1 | Jun 21, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
As a humanist, I have a natural aversion to technology. I lump digital technology into the camp of “those math and science people,” rarely post on social media, and regularly participate in the discourse that criticizes recent technological advancement for “taking...
by emmanu1 | Jun 18, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
After WWI, which proved to be a particularly devastating time for France, a new sense of nationalism began to grow in the world of music. Among the new nationalists of the time, Jean Cocteau, French writer, designer and playwright, wrote a book entitled Le Coq et...
by Siriana | Jun 17, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Introduction I spend hours a day reading. Combing through dusty biography after dusty biography searching for a single mention of a single address for a single spreadsheet. Research can seem monotonous after a while. So, on the second day of this summer’s CURI...
