Beautiful work, David and wonderful singing, Matt Boehler.
@evelynwekke99122 ай бұрын
Wonderful....although his recording do not do justice as does his live performances. He is a master of color.
@BetterMe9814 ай бұрын
Interesting that Copeland would hesitate to study with a lady teacher. I wonder if, over the years, he felt any type of negative feelings over folks hesitating to study with a gay teacher (of course I’m referring to Copeland himself).
@AljoniMusiCo5 ай бұрын
Great!
@riccardo500018 ай бұрын
Beautiful work David Conte, I especially enjoy the accompaniments. Matthew has a beautiful voice and expresses the songs wonderfully. Congratulations!
@gabrielduarte-compositor67808 ай бұрын
Beautiful music!
@19Edurne8 ай бұрын
Real subtitles would help because auto-generated ones are pretty useless.
@LearnCompositionOnline11 ай бұрын
38:00 paff, puff, bum!
@jbthepianist Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for uploading this. There is very little teaching of this quality available.
@jbthepianist Жыл бұрын
Your music is wonderful
@antonellatosi226 Жыл бұрын
Great emotion Laudetur Jesus Christus Rex Caelestis ❤
@actualDougReed Жыл бұрын
What a brilliant, beautiful, powerful, and inspired piece, David! Wow!
@prototropo Жыл бұрын
Just incredible. I've never seen this footage! I find it amazing to hear now-revered composers humbled to the level of freshmen college students, making pilgrimage from across the globe to bow to the intelligence and authority of a tiny woman of aristocratic comportment. Quincy Jone's narration is utterly perfect for this great story. Boulanger's estimation of Aaron Copland was sweetly compelling; his initial thoughts, however, derogating the notion that a "lady" could teach anything to a great composer were notable for the reverse--reprehensible and unworthy the otherwise "great composer" of his imagination. But the interviews with Madame Boulanger were really priceless. Thank you to all who worked on, or distributed, this profile.
@TheProsaicCult Жыл бұрын
What an amazing composition by David Conte, one of the great composers of his era. Chris Pursell absolutel nails it with that unforced, lyric baritone voice of his. Barber's "Dover Beach" should be on his short list of recital possibilities.
@pierrenhy3835 Жыл бұрын
C’est curieux de voir un documentaire étranger sur Nadia boulanger
@SassoonArtists Жыл бұрын
Heart wrenching music. So emotional.
@SassoonArtists Жыл бұрын
Beautiful work. Thank you!
@3tI8P-lj2lo Жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting this together. Really interesting. I imagine the fugue being a wonderful teaching work for secondary or early university students. I think even students who will not be involved in music professionally could enjoy and learn from it.
@emjay20452 жыл бұрын
Interesting … yet captivating …
@stratovation14742 жыл бұрын
Mozart Beethoven Bach were improvisers. What happened to that tradition? Jeez.
@sophelet7 ай бұрын
Jazz musicians are still expected to be able to do this. In what we might call classical (or art, or high art) music there are rules and examples available for what improvised embellishments may be added to the printed score. For example, we know from scholarship and original sources (like pedagogical treatises from the time period) how to embellish a tune from the 16th century in England or from other countries, but the suggestions and rules will also depend on the region where the composer wrote (e.g., what did performers do in London?) and the time period of the piece (e.g., what kind of embellishment is typical and allowed in music by William Byrd?). Also, classical performers can provide cadenzas that would be expected and weren't already written by the composer. For example, many of Mozart's piano concerti give free choice to the pianist for what to play for a cadenza. Robert Levin is a pianist and scholar who improvises his cadenzas. He might even write them down ahead of time as a help during the live performance. Improvisation is an important skill, but you're right that it doesn't get taught much now.
@hv1946FLUSA2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this magnificent documentary about N. Boulanger. I feel as if I have had an enjoyable visit with her. Beautifully presented.
@brutalnewmusic2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful music and scoring!
@jackgallagher99492 жыл бұрын
Touching, evocative, and elevating. Eloquently and expressively performed. Thank you to Messrs. Conte, Walker, and the inspired performers!
@EmilieFFazio2 жыл бұрын
Merci
@KevinKindSongs2 жыл бұрын
Professional technique vs solipsism - what will win? On everyone's phone today - me/me/me always wins. Past today - all that lasts is based in technique which is always hard work. Who wants to do hard craft work anymore, when I'm living in my phone!? Pop today, gone tomorrow.
@lucym51632 жыл бұрын
Great documentary. I'm glad she was interviewed when she was. But the only person who needed subtitles was Philip Glass!
@jslasher12 жыл бұрын
Great and informative documentary about this legendary music teacher. What would the state of 20th-century be without her?
@Boldstrummer2 жыл бұрын
What is the last piece with the soprano in Db?
@charlesdavis70872 жыл бұрын
Stunning! Thanks for sharing.
@ericastier16462 жыл бұрын
To branch on his point about the lost importance of memorizing as much music as possible, i believe this is closely linked to classical improvisation no longer being a normal tenant of the corpus of a pianist and that in turn being the consequence of extreme rigidity being imposed on how a written piece from the repertoire should be executed with zero tolerance to any deviation. This rigidity is what limits the ability to expand memorization of pieces. Here is why. Let's take the analogy of a complex nature trail that has a lot of turns and crosses many other trails that a trekker is trying to memorize. First without the improvisation method, he will always stay strictly on the trail he wants memorized, stop and repeat various sections of it until he has memorized it. Fine. Then take the improvisation approach. He will deviate from the trail to explore its close vincinities, he will find that here the trail comes a few yards close from a river, there from a splendid vista, and nearby he discovers a owl's nest or there an abandoned house. He never stray too far away from the trail to memorize. When he has memorized it, he will be able to see it in more dimensions because he knows how is lays in its natural setting. Whereas the rigid contemporary learner will have learned much less. It is the same with learning music using improvisation or not. It may seem more work but it actually makes it easier to learn new pieces in the long run. As harmonic intuition and the ability to see music is much improved. Also when i say improvisation, it does not mean a whole fantasy but only having fun with the written piece and experimenting with it while learning it (not when performing) giving oneself leeway to change entire phrasing rythms, melody and sometimes exploring its chordal progression this sort of things. Not making a performed improvisation, but to someone who does not know the piece should not be able to tell that this is not on paper.
@joannac4560 Жыл бұрын
Really helpful and interesting comment. Thank you.
@maryturton5792 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@antoniavignera23392 жыл бұрын
Documento prezioso.Emozionante vedere come ha gestito la Sua professione dedicando con tanto amore tutta la vita a servizio della musica. Grazie.
@nessieness54332 жыл бұрын
This is about music, but the background music is annoying, cannot follow the voice well.
@joeydiguglielmo89502 жыл бұрын
Is that pedalboard radiating? Can't tell.
@shermanhesselgrave66352 жыл бұрын
In keeping with Cavaillé-Coll�s custom in his mature periods, the present pedalboard rises in height at its extremes, giving the effect of concavity, while the sharp keys grow longer, giving the effect of radiating pedals. Therefore, the pedalboard, while straight, is not flat.
@randygeyer76732 жыл бұрын
To reach into ideas
@joeriffanucci2 жыл бұрын
Wow that was fantastic!
@fransvangoolen29722 жыл бұрын
Fantastic.. greetings from Haarlem Netherlands
@TheJohn15672 жыл бұрын
Bravo to Ken and David!
@randywhiting77632 жыл бұрын
Ken is such a talented artist, his artistry and technique is amazing. Looking forward to seeing his concert in Palm Desert, Ca. this season.
@yurimccoy70942 жыл бұрын
Wow, great piece!
@debsg20242 жыл бұрын
Muito lindo este arranjo. Parabéns! 👍🙌🎶♥️✨🙏🙋🏻♀️
@karlrovey2 жыл бұрын
Great playing and an observation unrelated to the playing. It's interesting how you really can't see any wear on the pedals in the camera shots of the pedal board. In college, the recital hall organ was less than 10 years old (five years old when I had my first lesson on it and could see the wear even then) and had obvious visible wear on the pedals in the center of the pedalboard. How is it not already visible on this instrument (or have pedals already been replaced)?
@Pipe-organ-recordings2 жыл бұрын
Color balance is really good here!!! Nice going!!!
@albert87622 жыл бұрын
Killer work! Become an online boss = Promo`SM!!
@3tI8P-lj2lo2 жыл бұрын
breathtaking
@dejanromih79132 жыл бұрын
What's the music at around 24:00?
@prototropo Жыл бұрын
Not sure but it sounds like something by Virgil Thompson, who's then interviewed.
@cecilefox91362 жыл бұрын
What an extraordinary personality Nadia Boulanger had-which I profoundly admire!
@sophelet2 жыл бұрын
Lovely to see this, David. Of course I think of you and a couple of my other teachers when I hear/see her name. Are you in any of the film footage about here, either here or elsewhere?