Tag: Marion Bauer
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Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2016
Some news to start your week! Philip Kennicott, art critic for The Washington Post, contributed to this month’s Opera News to discuss the ways in which topics of gender and race are handled – or not – in current opera productions. This comes after the Met ended the tradition of using blackface in Otello and recent conversations surrounding The Mikado…
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Featured Guest Blogger: Virginia Eskin reviews new book on Bauer Sisters
This article was reprinted in April 2020, by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with the provoking title “An American Scriabin?” Today’s Featured Guest Blogger is the renowned pianist, educator and radio journalist Virginia Eskin. A Boston and New Hampshire resident, Eskin is a long-time champion of the works of American and European women composers. She was the…
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Marion Bauer: Educator and Composer
Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was born in Washington state the youngest of seven children to working class immigrant parents. But even though resources were limited, the Bauers supported their daughter’s musical aptitude. Though she studied extensively, including being the first American to study with Nadia Boulanger, Bauer never earned a formal degree for her music education.…
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Marion Bauer
Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was born in Walla Walla, Washington to immigrant French Jewish parents. She studied piano from a young age, later refining her talent in piano and composition at the Paris Conservatory. While in France she was the first American student of Nadia Boulanger, who taught her in exchange for English lessons. When she…