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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
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