Jan 20, 2022 · Leonard Bernstein talks about Nadia Boulanger in this 1977 Bruno Monsaingeon documentary (starts at 7:15). At his New England country home in Fairfield, Connecticut, Bernstein had a music studio, whose walls hung scores of drawings, paintings and photographs, including one photo showing Boulanger pinning ribbon of officier of the Légion d ...

Apr 19, 2017 · Boulanger was the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony orchestras (Credit: Getty Images) It is no exaggeration, then, to consider Boulanger the most...

Jan 15, 2022 · That bit where Bernstein was describing her critical comment that the B-flat was the wrong note because we had just heard it earlier struck home because Elie would often chide me for the same...

Jun 23, 2020 · Nadia Boulanger taught Leonard Bernstein. Picture: Getty. Boulanger had a lifelong friendship with, and conducted the premieres of, revolutionary composer Igor Stravinsky, who she first discovered when she attended the premiere for his ballet The Firebird.

Apr 30, 2024 · Leonard Bernstein tells this story of how he was playing her a new song that he wrote, and there's this moment, just a little moment, where this B flat played in the bass, and she grabbed his arm. You'll see that in the video.

May 23, 1982 · Leonard Bernstein, perhaps the last person to speak with Nadia Boulanger, found her nearly comatose in the Fontainebleau hospital. He asked if she heard music in her head, and if so, what...

Sep 23, 2018 · The Boulanger experience, he remembered, “invariably left us shaken and silent”. Confused by the contradictory opinions in the air today, I turned to one of my main interests, portraiture, to try to get a better feel for the person behind the mask.

French composer, performer, and first woman to conduct the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, and Philadelphia orchestras, who was best known as a teacher of music, including among her students Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland, thereby making her one of the most influential musicians of the 20th ...

With Leonard Bernstein, Nadia Boulanger, Igor Markevitch, Bruno Monsaingeon. This documentary is the first film ever made by Bruno Monsaingeon. It was shot in the 1960s and early 1970s in grainy black and white and only average sound, when Boulanger was in her late 80s and still fearsomely in command of her abilities.

Nadia Boulanger to Leonard Bernstein, September 16, 1957 Correspondence. 2 pages. | excerpt: [Nadia Boulanger thanks Leonard Bernstein on her 70th birthday, in French] "Leonard...Encore merci A bientot!"