Tag: Nadia Boulanger

  • Peace for Paris

    As the world mourns the tragedy in Paris – and denounces the violence that occurs every day throughout the world – let’s pause and reflect. It seems only appropriate to share Lili Boulanger’s Pie Jesu as conducted by her sister, Nadia Boulanger.

  • Monday Link Round Up: November 2, 2015

    Catch up on the news from the weekend: The Guardian asked composer Anna Clyne (among others) to put together a Classical Music for Beginners list.  She includes works by Kaija Saariaho and Caroline Shaw – read, and listen, here. NPR did a great piece on the life and work of Jazz organist Shirley Scott.  Watch…

  • Featured Guest Blog: Discovering Louise Talma’s First Orchestral Works

    Featured Guest Blogger:  Kendra Preston Leonard   We are happy to be launching a new series of guest bloggers. Leonard’s book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition (Ashgate) was published last year and caught our attention, so we are honored to have her as our first “FGB.”   A musicologist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and…

  • Remembering Nadia Boulanger

    Today would be the 127th birthday of Nadia Boulanger – the foremost music educator of the 20th century.  Her skill and expertise were widely sought, and her list of students is more than extensive and impressive.  I highly recommend Bruno Monsaingeon’s excellent documentary Mademoiselle Nadia Boulanger, which was completed in honor of her 90th birthday, and which…