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Chained Art. Nadia Boulanger was born in a house full of music. Her grandfather was a composer and so was her father, who in 1835 won the Prix de Rome. Her grandmother was a famous singer at the Opera-Comique and her mother a Russian princess. Nadia herself won prizes in every subject she studied at the Paris Conservatory, topped it off with the second Grand Prix de Rome...
...years, U.S. composers have crossed the Atlantic to study with austere Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau's American Conservatory. Among them: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson. Another Boulanger alumnus, Marc Blitzstein, was recently commissioned by Boston's Serge Koussevitzky to write an opera. Last week Teacher Boulanger made news in her own way-quietly...
...anniversary of her sister's death. Sister Lili died in 1918, a few years after winning the coveted Grand Prix de Rome.* Nadia considered her sister's talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
...Nadia Boulanger is a spare, prim, grey-haired woman whose piercing eyes are frozen behind pince-nez. She dresces severely in black, brightened by a sunburst clip or a silver chain. When she talks, which is often, her hands are as eloquent as her speech...
Brahms: Second Sonata in E Flat for Clarinet and Piano (Benny Goodman and Nadia Reisenberg; Columbia, 6 sides). Brahms at his banal worst; Goodman at his technical best...