Teach It’s Nadia Boulanger’s 126th birthday: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nadia_Boulanger_1925.jpg Some names: George Antheil, Burt Bacharach, Daniel Barenboim, Lennox Berkeley, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Clifford Curzon, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Nicholas Maw, Gian Carlo Menotti, Thea Musgrave, Astor Piazzola, Walter Piston, Henryk Szeryng, Virgil Thomson. That’s a very small selection of her students. Then there are her friends: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Igor_Stravinsky_%26_Nadia_Boulanger_1937.jpg Aaron Copland said: ‘Nadia Boulanger knew everything there was to know about music; she knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky. All technical know-how was at her fingertips: harmonic transposition, the figured bass, score reading, organ registration, instrumental techniques, structural analyses, the school fugue and the free fugue, the Greek modes and Gregorian chant..’ As someone who attempts to work in the same field, I would wish for 0.1% of her gifts to pass on, and would be more than satisfied: https://youtube/watch?v=cwgXZlNouwk https://youtube/watch?v=Krn4tx6in0c
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:44:29 +0000
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