Bob Kasenchak ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>There were 2 Boulangers, and they were both "hers":  Lili & Nadia.
>Lili (1893-1918) died young and was the more prolific composer.  Nadia
>(1887-1979) lived forever and was a great pedagogue, everyone, and I mean
>-everyone- seems to have gone to France to study with her at some point,
>from Copland to Cowell, the list goes on & on & on

So well know was she, that this extract from the 2nd Hoffnung Concert, in
fact the pre-performance commentary of Bruno-Heinz Jaja's Punkt-Kontrapunkt
contains the following, which needed no explanation..

  "Jaja is pure absolute, strict twelve-tone, never tempted, like some
  of the French composers, to use 13 tones. This, says Jaja, is the
  baker's dozen, the nadir of boulanger."

Deryk Barker
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