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...name Nadia Boulanger may not ring a bell for many of us; in fact, many people may not know that she was one of the most influential forces in classical music during the 20th century, instructing famous composers such as Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, and Philip Glass. This weekend, an exhibit will open in her honor at the Edna Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Its opening coincides with the “Crosscurrents” conference, which takes place from Thursday, Oct. 30 to Saturday, Nov. 1. “Crosscurrents” will explore the musical interactions between America...
...High School of Music and Art as well as the Manhattan School of Music. Both, he says, were among the most influential experiences in his life. His formal education in music did not end there, however, as Yannatos went on to study composition with the likes of French composer Nadia Boulanger and Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola and conducting with William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein...
...China isn't the only communist country to count on its women. Think of Eastern bloc athletes such as gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Olga Korbut. But their male counterparts? They just didn't measure up in terms of Olympic glory. Even North Korea holds to the rule: both of its golds in Beijing have come courtesy of female Olympians...
...competition highlighted the two girls' contrasting gymnastics styles. Liukin, a willowy 5'3", resembles the gymnasts of the Nadia Comaneci era, when girls in the sport were long and lean and looked more like dancers than tight end defenders. Since the 1980s, however, thanks in part to the growing number of injuries and the more challenging skills the gymnasts are trying on the mats, the sturdier bodies, like Johnson's, at 4'9", have been claiming more titles - think Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug, Shannon Miller, and 2004 Olympic all-around champion Patterson. These are powerful athletes...
...second for how well those skills are executed. The total can now range from 10.0 all the way to 17-something. "You have to do a bigger variety of difficult skills now," says Conner, who was in the stadium with his wife, the 1976 Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci, to catch the competition. "In our era, you could do one or two difficult moves, then fill out the rest of your routine with things you are comfortable doing. Now you have to be a freak of nature to be able to do a world-class routine." While gymnastics has always been...