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 Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 22, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As we are beginning to piece together our project on H. T. Burleigh, our class has divided into a handful of different specializations in order to create a more polished, cohesive project. I am looking forward to taking on another week of researching with Jessie and...
by west3 | Jan 19, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The most recent challenge that has popped up in my Burleigh research is tracking down places where his compositions were performed abroad. Over the past week, I have been focusing on rounding out my Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes research, trying to fill in gaps of...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 17, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my work on musicological mapping up to this point, I have found that by far my greatest and most important asset has been persistence. At this point in the term, our class has divided mostly into smaller subgroups each tasked with researching and mapping different...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Conducting research on someone from an era as foreign to me as the early 20th century is really a blessing as much as it is a curse. Of course, being almost one and a half centuries younger than H. T. Burleigh has left me with a severe lack of knowledge of his...