Finally (Kinda) Understanding French Music As I take time to reflect on this past semester, I feel that overall, I learned a lot. For me as a woman, the most prominent theme I resonated with was through the lens of gender. By writing about Jane Bathori, I truly had the opportunity to understand more about […]
As a performer in the arts, I had heard of Poulenc before but nothing quite as intimate as Moore describes with Poulenc’s relationship with his own music. One composition that Moore talked about was the piece Aubade. From an oblivious perspective, this is just a woman named Diane who is rebellious and abandons the virgin […]
I think that Parisians were excited about African American artists because of how different they were from previous music, but I don’t think that they had respect for it because of how intentionally or unintentionally racist they were about it. One example of a racist way to approach African Art is illustrated by Picasso. The […]
Before this class, I had never heard of Jane Bathori, which I am surprised by considering how talented and influential she became. In the scholarly article The Performer As Catalyst: The Role Of The Singer Jane Bathori (1877–1970) In The Careers Of Debussy, Ravel, “Les Six,” And Their Contemporaries In Paris, 1904–1926 by Linda Cuneo-Laurent it […]
In the late 19th century, Paris was know as the cultural capital of Paris with the Société nationale de musique being established the population of Paris reaching two million. A sense of reawakening with national self esteem was much needed after a humiliating loss after the Franco-Prussian War. However, for many years before and after […]