by devries | Nov 9, 2015 | Sarah DeVries
Dorf and Moore are sure of their convictions in their writing, but they haven’t fully convinced me. I understand how Dorf applied sapphonics to Satie’s Socrate, but the Sapphonic concept itself that Wood writes about in “Queering the Pitch” is...
by devries | Oct 23, 2015 | Sarah DeVries
To be honest, I have not delved too deeply into researching about the Concerts Colonne…yet! However, I do have a plan for what I’m going to look into. I have already discovered some about what music the group typically performed and a bit about its musical...
by devries | Oct 14, 2015 | Sarah DeVries
There are almost as many cultural interpretations of negrophilia in the 1920s as there pieces of information available about Josephine Baker and performances of La Revue Nègre in particular. There were some positive responses, a few fence-riders, and clearly very...
by devries | Sep 28, 2015 | Sarah DeVries
There’s a plethora of information about Les Six and how they influenced French music, but my question is, how did Germaine function within the group? We know she was the only female member. Many sources will mention dry facts…about their music, its...
by devries | Sep 16, 2015 | Sarah DeVries
When I was younger, my dad would always have an atlas in the car when we went on family vacations. Then, he started printing off Google Maps directions. A few years ago, he finally relinquished directional control and learned to trust a GPS device. Now, I constantly...
