by lacy1 | Jun 16, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Madame la Dauphine ne verra pas le beau film qu’on y a fait tirer les vers du nez car on l’a menée en terre avec son premier né en terre et à Nanterre où elle est interrée. -Le Bal Masquée Le bal masqué: Préambule et Air de Bravoure by Francis Poulenc...
by lacy1 | Jun 15, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
In Alex Ross’s book The Rest is Noise, he paints a fascinating picture of the musical life of the twentieth century. He interweaves detailed descriptions of composers, patrons, venues, and music theory to explore what the twentieth century might have...
by lacy1 | Jun 9, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
It’s amazing how it can take almost two weeks to really develop the goals of a project. I have discovered that it is through active work that we seem do the best learning and growing. I think even after these last weeks of intensive research, we will still be...
by Siriana | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Question of the day: how often will I feel like Victor Frankenstein while I work on CURI this summer? The latest task of formatting data from over 200 premiers was monstrous, however, when we finally uploaded our information into the first draft of a map, I had a...
by lacy1 | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Today we got to see the result of our hard work on the data cleaning that we did all day yesterday. We pulled together the spreadsheets of compiled premieres for four different composers – Honneger, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Poulenc – to create a...