by Siriana | Jun 15, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Composer. Organist. Pedagogue. Nadia Boulanger is widely regarded as one of the most influential music teacher’s of the 20th century. Her teaching position at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau helped mold a new generation of American composers,...
by Stella Li | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Throughout this semester in “Paris in the 1920s”, we learned different pieces from the 1920s Paris, not only about what is in the music, but also what comes out of the music, using the five critical lenses: nation, race, gender, sexuality and social class....
by Stella Li | Oct 23, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
When we talking about nationalism and internationalism, we firstly think these two notions are somehow conflicting. Nationalism is almost always associated exclusiveness and rejection of otherness, while internationalism seemed to symbol a universal embracement of...
by Stella Li | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
A production of PBS award-winning bibliography series “American Masters”, “Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait” (1986) 1 introduces a chronological panorama of Aaron Copland’s life as a great composer, conductor, teacher and human being. An...