Monday Link Round Up: November 2, 2015

by sarah | Nov 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...

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

by Liane Curtis | Apr 2, 2015

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...

Remembering Nadia Boulanger

by sarah | Sep 16, 2014

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...

International Women’s Day and the Boulanger Sisters

by sarah | Mar 8, 2014

Today is International Women’s Day!  And to celebrate, today’s post is about two sisters who made an international impression during their lives, and after. Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) were French natives, and  sisters who...

Happy Birthday, Nadia Boulanger!

by sarah | Sep 16, 2011

Today is the 124th birthday of composer, conductor, and educator Nadia Boulanger. I was actually reminded of this on my morning commute by my local independent radio station, WDIY, who did a birthday tribute to Nadia by playing works of some of her most famous pupils....