by Thea Brenner | Jul 17, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
Greetings from the same laptop, new location! This weekend we are in Washington D.C. at the Library of Congress! Yes you read that correctly! I have been looking forward to this trip for a long time so to finally be here is a somewhat surreal feeling. There are a few...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
If there was only one thing I could take away from this interim, it would be a whole lot of gratitude for being only a first year student. This project on H.T. Burleigh, besides all the valuable information I’ve learned on early American music and composers, besides...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my usual way, I went about starting this blog post by trying to come up with a witty (at least to me) title. Check out hits like On the Media (for you NPR fans), and Pulling Out All the Stops. Seeing as this is my wrap-up of H.T. Burleigh research, this title...
by Annika Van Farowe | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Well, it’s about time to close the book (or is it fold the map?) on H.T. Burleigh, at least for now. It feels like we’ve spent so much time looking into Burleigh, when in fact it’s only been a couple of weeks. In reflecting about the course, I’ve come to a few...
by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 29, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Throughout the entirety of January, I worked with eleven other hard-working student researchers to create our final project, The Life and Legacy of H.T. Burleigh, and what a month it has been! I wasn’t sure what the culmination of our efforts would look like, but I am...