by Natalie Kopp | Jul 27, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Despite the fact that we call them “silent films,” films of the 1920s were by no means silent. To a modern audience, we may be bored when watching old silent films, but it’s easy to forget that we are experiencing them out of context. In addition the to intrigue...
by Philip Claussen | Jun 8, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a French composer from Normandy; he studied at the Paris Conservatory (which he despised) and in 1887 left his music publisher and amateur composer father and his stepmother (whom he found unbearable) to live in Montmartre (link to map), the...