David Stewart wrote:

>But to the main question I wanted to ask: Boulanger.  Had never heard of
>him (or her?) before tonight.

Her.  Nadia.  She was a noted Paris musician during the first half of
the century.  She was a composer and a conductor (the first to conduct a
program with a major orchestra, the RPO), I think.  She was really known
for her teaching.  Many famous American composers studied with her: the
ones that come immediately to mind are Copland, Harris, Virgil Thompson (I
think) and maybe Bernstein, among others.  I haven't heard her music in
years.  I don't recall her as a Debussian as much as more like someone like
Milhaud, but it's been a very long time and, surprisingly, I don't have her
recordings any more.  There's quite a bit in Schwann these days, though.

Roger Hecht