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June, 1958, Harvard University presented an honorary degree to a , gray-haired, 70-year-old woman. citation to Nadia Boulanger read: half a century of teaching her influence has pervaded the musical life of two continents." Just years earlier, a young French , Nadia Boulanger, received the second Prix de Rome in musical composition for a cantata called 'La .' In the intervening decades, Nadia Boulanger studied, worked, and . And in spite of her preference for anonymity, she achieved the fame based essentially on excellence as a teacher: with Ernst Bloch Paul Hindemith she shares the of most influential music teacher...
...Words cannot speak of music and vice versa. It must be performed," Nadia Boulanger once said. Mlle. Boulanger was especially right about her own performance last Friday evening in the Fogg Museum--as close to a perfect evening of music as one could hope...
...triumphal 75th birthday trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger, Paris' matriarch of modern music, became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic. Borrowing the podium of one of the few notable American composers who was never her pupil, mercurial Maestro Leonard Bernstein, the "tender tyrant" led the orchestra through psalms by her late sister...
...central plot line, as we see against the spectre of an overprotective mother (Katina Paxinou) the struggle of the saintlike Rocco (Alain Delon) to save Simon (Renato Salvatori) from the dishonorable ways he has fallen into. The tragic situation is provoked by the love affair of Rocco and Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute whom Simon had loved and lost. When Simon learns of Rocco's success, he drives himself to re-enact the primal crime, raping Nadia in Rocco's presence, beating his brother, and eventually killing the woman who can but tell him, "You dirtied the only beautiful thing...
...Usable Past. From the time he finished his Paris studies with Nadia Boulanger in the mid-1920s, Brooklyn born Aaron Copland was known as a restive talent. Looking for "a usable past," he experimented first with jazz in the wiry, jaunty Music for the Theater (1925), later wove it into the strident and monumental style of the Ode, which to his mind marks "the end of the first period of my work." A later period was inspired by Cop land's feeling that the American composer was losing touch with his public. In the late 1930s he began...