Should have done this yesterday...

I pretty much completely forgot to blog by yesterday at 11 or whatever...hopefully this will still count...

Well, the last 2 class periods and chapters in our book have been very interesting! We're finally getting into time periods and people that we're all a bit more familiar with and it's been nice to see everyone discussing more in class...we covered the 19th and very early 20th centuries and found very familiar names and quite a bit of new ones.  I was particularly intrigued by the composer Louise Bertin (1805-1877).  She composed several operas, of which some were produced at the Opera Comique in Paris (quite a feat for women composer of that time period!).  Two of her Opera's include Fausto (based on Goethe's "Faust" and La Esmeralda based on the Hunchback of Notre Dame, for which Victor Hugo himself wrote the libretto. Louise Bertin is apparently the only composer in history to have collaborated directly with Hugo on an Opera. Pretty impressive!

On another note...I'm excited to start research on the paper for Women in Music due at the end of the semester. I've decided to write about Clara Schumann!  I'm very interested in this sort of wonder woman of music! Child Prodigy, composer, mother, wife, patron, teacher. AHH! I would love to really focus on her piano concerto, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much information on it (I find it way more interesting than Robert's), however, I have asked the library to FIND A COPY SO I DON'T HAVE TO SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully something will turn up soon.