The support of the Edward Guiliano Global fellowship enabled me to spend a week in Basel, Switzerland, where I accomplished dissertation research at the Paul Sacher Stiftung on Italian musical modernism after Fascism. My dissertation is on the Italian composer Luciano Berio, the avant-garde writers who comprised his intellectual milieu, and how the legacy of Fascism left grooves in their respective aesthetics and approaches to modernist artistic expression. The Sacher archive is home to hundreds of documents which, taken altogether, trace the evolution of European musical modernism since the beginning of the twentieth century. This breadth of items includes the Luciano Berio collection, with all the composer’s scores and correspondences, and thus a dedicated trip to the Sacher is something I have been eagerly anticipating ever since I began formulating my dissertation project.