My mother, Adelaide Lee Herron, was lucky enough to have studied with Nadia in a summer course at Fountainbleau in the 1920s before she got married to my father. And she was an excellent organist who, typical of women at that time, put her career behind that of my father, an engineer in the areospace industries.
@SAXloungeEF2 жыл бұрын
Your mother took a free decision of real LOVE. You can be thankfull for her decision.
@ratulxy2 жыл бұрын
@@SAXloungeEF nonsense.
@Envy_May2 жыл бұрын
@@ratulxy username checks out /pos
@tadcotadco6344 Жыл бұрын
she could combine
@birdylove24 Жыл бұрын
@@tadcotadco6344 No, she couldn't. In this time, woman had not the possibility to choose. Husbands could forbid their wifes to go to work. Look at the tragedy between Gustav and Alma Mahler; he forbade her from composing, even though she was a trained and gifted musician! His reason: it would be ridiculous for a married couple to compete in the same field, and of course it was the woman who had to step back! And one also thinks of Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy's sister, who was a gifted composer and could not have her pieces performed because at the time a woman was not even allowed to compose and therefore nobody wanted her music just listen! Her brother, who of course recognized the high quality of her songs and found it unfair that Fanny was forbidden to show her skills, then had them performed under his name and was celebrated for it. When his name was above the performances, there was applause; if Fanny was the author, they would have made fun of her. "Having a choice" looks different to me...
@syw40392 жыл бұрын
One of her students introduced me to one of Nadia's singing exercises that opens the voice in a powerful way: sing a note as if you're singing the consonant "ng" - keep developing the sound - mouth open but soft palette closed. Don't allow any air to pass through the vocal chords, just get the resonance strong. Then switch to the syllable "ah", maintaining the position and resonance achieved.
@edwardjohn5 Жыл бұрын
Soft palate closed? What does this mean? Flat or lifted?
@supershred5000 Жыл бұрын
"Don't allow any air to pass through the vocal chords, just get the resonance strong" ??? This doesn't make sense
@digital_matt Жыл бұрын
To translate (because this is a bit confusing to read) the exercise is to hum, but with an open mouth. The 'ng' consonant starts in the position you would need to hum with an open mouth. You then get the note you're humming to sound full and supported, then switch to an open syllable with that same laxness and breath support.
@johnrswedberg2 жыл бұрын
One of my grad school professors studied with her. He had an extraordinary ear and ridiculous facility with music theory and keyboard skills.
@glendonemmons38592 жыл бұрын
I studied with one of her pretty prominent students. It changed my life. I’m 33 years old. She really has reached into the future.
@tharealist8242 жыл бұрын
Sure you did....
@KKIcons2 жыл бұрын
I was just going to get on here to comment about her student Emil Nauoumov, who is a music prof. in the USA. Not sure if I spelled his name right. He teaches and improvs on his YT channel. It is fascinating to watch a living piano tradition in action that way. And maybe feel a part of the Boulangerie community or a similar one, which is my dream. Did you see the Monsaingeon Boulanger documentary? A very young Emil can be seen in that as well. That video is so inspiring.
@paullebon3232 жыл бұрын
Ha ha... Notice the low key grandiosity.
@winston1984smith2 жыл бұрын
@@KKIcons Emile Naoumoff. What a great composer and pianist… No wonder why Nadia kept him as her last student. His daily improvs are amazing! kzbin.infovideos
@mynameisnobody36722 жыл бұрын
18:30 "Her greatest ambition was to encourage them to develop an individual musical voice" : That is the essence of an ultimate teacher. She sent Astor back to Tango and the rest is history. There is another ultimate teacher who you might want to know about, however he is way far from Western music, he is Baba Allauddin Khan from India, you may read similar guru-student stories : Punishingly hard practice and eventually individual improvisation skills.
@yugominier44522 жыл бұрын
If you ever get too confident return back to this video so you can go back to your place Already knew Nadia Boulanger was a real deal but never thought she was that much. Thanks for sharing this.
@auldthymer2 жыл бұрын
I am so thrilled to learn about this amazing woman. I knew Quincy Jones had studied with her, but I had no idea Charles Strouse did as well. Her influence is awe inspiring.
@kiaraeijo2 жыл бұрын
Another student of Nadia Boulanger’s was Darius Milhaud who is best known for being one of the members of Les Six. His flute Sonatine is beautiful and I also love his woodwind quintet
@thierryboileau38562 жыл бұрын
and Darius Milhaud is also known to have given lessons to the great Dave Brubeck!
@mathyys2 жыл бұрын
As French, I am happy you bring to light this original and strong character. Few people know that in fact she embodies a direct link between Gabriel Fauré and Quincy Jones. A fun fact indeed !
@tadcotadco6344 Жыл бұрын
after all, her heroic stand towards German occupants and openly expressed contempt to them witness that her categoricalness in everything was not ostentatious.
@stevehinnenkamp56252 жыл бұрын
Dear Sir, In a short time you have captured the essence of Mme. Boulanger. At 19 years 1972 I was fortunate to study with her. I felt my lack of compositional tecjjniqy
@grahamlyons85222 жыл бұрын
@@BuddhaofBlackpool ...or checking for tie pose.
@stevehinnenkamp56252 жыл бұрын
Forgive me, like Mademoiselle I am losing the gift of sight.
@janefaceinthewind62602 жыл бұрын
@@stevehinnenkamp5625 I am so sorry to hear, and I thank you for sharing your wonderful experience ❤️🎼
@doorsheets26372 жыл бұрын
I asked my piano instructor one week if he was familiar with Nadia, his answer was no. I couldn’t believe my ears. She is tragically under appreciated. Loved the description Philip Glass put in his memoir about his studies with her.
@redflowers63502 жыл бұрын
A piano teacher who does not know about Nadia Boulanger ? Original ...
@lesleyheller22712 жыл бұрын
I would say that your piano instructor was deficiently trained if he was ignorant of Boulanger.
@redflowers63502 жыл бұрын
@@lesleyheller2271 as we say in France "c'est la base"
@Pennwisedom Жыл бұрын
The first piece my composition teacher (and pianist) made us listen to was Bach, the second piece, Nadia Boulganer. Not that everyone knows her, but I would say for a teacher that is more of a him issue.
@johnmaryn44972 жыл бұрын
When I was a young 22-year-old grad student in Vienna (1971-72), I inquired about studying at Fontainbleau for the summer. I had only sent a few very short (very short) pieces from my undergrad composition class with my inquiry. To my surprise, I received a handwritten and encouraging note from Nadia Boulanger about summer study. I still have that note somewhere and while I never became a full-time “composer,” I did complete my Master’s in Composition at Indiana University and have a recital and year’s worth of student music (which I like). (My handwritten scores and parts were accidentally thrown away a few years ago-protect your musical legacy.). That note did give me some forward-looking hope in learning to compose music. After seeing the rigor of her teaching methodology in this video, I wonder if I would have failed at writing, or maybe risen to a new level.
@KKIcons2 жыл бұрын
If you record some of your ideas and put them on your channel, I'd be curiouz to hear them. I didn't really have time to write music since I chose to pursue art and poetry, also having a family and farm. But I still managed to share some of my ideas I had been ruminating over for all those years. I made some friends along the way who encouraged me, even though I lacked self-confidence for many years. Gould in one of his articles mentioned one of his favorite composers didn't really begin until after he retired. So that was part the Norwegian composer F. Valens. That was probably inspiring to him as another person who had put off his composing career until later in life, but sadly he died before he could work on his ideas.
@johnmaryn44972 жыл бұрын
@@KKIcons Thank you for your reply and poignant note on composer Valens. Let me see if I can put up some of my serious music from Indiana U on KZbin (have to think about it), or if I can just email you a few pieces. I need to remind myself to do these things. I am a little nervous. Yes, composing for me was difficult. At Indiana U, I picked out the notes on the piano (I did not magically hear the entire piece in my head…though I have a good musical ear.) As a side note, while I have your attention, my first exposure to composition was in Vienna and was avant-garde musique concrete. Here I took a single sound and manipulated it to make a 21 minute “story” composition, using tape techniques. It was a technical exercise. And finally, as I went through life - working and paying bills - I did have a keyboard MIDI setup and every once in a while scrapped out POP music. And a couple of songs. For yourself, maybe sit down and either write or improvise some music and record it.
@Bati_2 жыл бұрын
I admire her incredibly but how she criticized herself in every department of her life makes me very sad. After all, she was a human being like any one of us... We don't know how much suffering was involved in her life and work... This is such a wonderful video! Thank you for sharing!
@barney68882 жыл бұрын
Time is revealing just how much this brilliant woman has made music so beautiful for all the world.
@johnmarraffa50792 жыл бұрын
One of my instructors at Westminster Choir College studied with Boulanger. The stories he shared with us about her were a highlight of my theory classes. Thank you for this in-depth video about a remarkable woman and music teacher.
@mckernan6032 жыл бұрын
Could you tell us one?
@johnmarraffa50792 жыл бұрын
My theory teacher, Dr. Stephen Young, now retired, would give us a ear training and chord progression exercise by telling us to play a bass line in the left hand in one key and the other three parts in the right hand in another key a tritone away, so no chords made a consonance. (e.g. C in the left - F# in the right. "Now transpose to the subdominant." Hee hee.) Dr. Young told us Boulanger used to do that and more with her students. He would have to play the piano in one key while a recording of the same work play on a phonograph in another. Very Ivesian.
@jordanklotz19442 жыл бұрын
Yes! Dr. Young! He’s still teaching at WCC.
@sophelet2 жыл бұрын
Joseph Flummerfelt was also a student of Nadia Boulanger. I was fortunate to study with him and Stefan Young as a grad student at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. And as an undergraduate, I sang in a small chamber ensemble conducted by David Conte, who was one of Mlle Boulanger's last students. He has carried forth her pedagogy and knowledge with his students at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the summer course at Fontainebleu. Conte studied composition at Cornell University, where his teacher was Karel Husa--also a student of Boulanger. More remote connection, but still influential in my experience, are the many concerts conducted by Leonard Bernstein in which I sang as a member of Westminster Choir College Symphonic Choir. In these teachers and conductors I have been obliquely a student of Mlle Boulanger, and this has made my life richer.
@KenLampl2 жыл бұрын
I was lucky to have studied with a number of her pupils at Fontainebleau and then at the Juilliard School. I wish I could have studied directly with her but sadly she was no longer alive. Fantastic video and thank you for honoring such an important pedagogue.
@DZPianoMusic2 жыл бұрын
I consider myself extremely fortunate to be a “musical descendant” of Nadia Boulanger … my piano professor at Rutgers University (‘93-96), Samuel Dilworth-Leslie, was a highly regarded student of hers … considering the positive and profound impact he’s made on my musical life, and the legacy - Faure, and other Prix de Rome winners Nadia Boulanger likely met, as well as the compositional giants of the 20th century she had a profound influence on - I feel quite blessed.
@DerJayger2 жыл бұрын
I love to experience the creative and musical atmosphere of Paris at that time. Even today, there are teachers like her.
@Chopin19952 жыл бұрын
'Mademoiselle Nadia Boulanger' from 1977 is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Strongly recommended!
@jaiofficialmusic2 жыл бұрын
I'm honestly awestruck, not just because of the importance of this video, but also for the stupid fact that I was just listening to John Adam's "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" before this and it's the first piece that plays lol.
@BrunoTavora2 жыл бұрын
Cláudio Santoro was also his student
@pippipster67672 жыл бұрын
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@nicoletadarmaz95162 жыл бұрын
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@nocheastral82192 жыл бұрын
Awesome Documentary! I hope your concious of the impact your work is for younger generations to understand that theres an heritage in classical music and theres more than 4/4 beat music that mainstream media makes money from it.
@robbes7rh2 жыл бұрын
Fantastically inspirational. I had only a very incomplete picture of her as a respected teacher of composition and hostess of a salon in Paris that attracted Stravinsky and Aaron Copeland. I had no idea that her roster of students was a veritable who’s who of avant- guard American composers in the 20th century as well as pop luminaries Quincy Jones and Burt Bacharach. I love the fact that her musical mind embraced everything from Claudio Monteverdi to American jazz. What is inspirational is the depth and completeness of her musicianship. Was it Stravinsky who said, “she knows absolutely everything about music”? That she walked her talk and expected nothing less from her students. I’m not like her nor would I want to be, but I could certainly benefit from emulating her hard work and dedication to thoroughness and practicality in the sphere of music. I do like the idea of memorizing Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier. I’ll begin with my favorites and may only get that far, but that’s a lot further than neglecting the challenge altogether.
@markrymanowski7192 жыл бұрын
Bacarach and Jones weren't pop. Pop has no tutors. Everyone learned from the works of those who came before. They performed covers and learned how to write songs from there. The Beatles are a.classic example. No tuition fees. Just DIY. The words of Jesus; 'The meek shall inherit the earth'. This is just one of many examples of the meek inheriting. Poverty, no barrier.
@robbes7rh2 жыл бұрын
@@markrymanowski719 - both of them were sophisticated composers, arrangers, and producers of commercial music that was tailored for radio play and popular consumption. True, they weren’t like the Beatles but much of their success was in the popular idiom. Jones started in Jazz playing trumpet but went on to arranging, film scoring, then producing among others Michael Jackson. Bacharach was classically trained but he went on to write hundreds of popular songs mostly for other artists. Popular music as we understand it over the last 50 years encompasses a wide range of sub genres, folk being one of many.
@markrymanowski7192 жыл бұрын
@@robbes7rh Hundreds of popular songs? I'd love to see the list.
@robbes7rh2 жыл бұрын
@@markrymanowski719 - there is a Wikipedia article, “List of Songs written by Burt Bacharach”. Altogether it lists about100. He’s had 73 hits in the top 40 in U.S. and 52 in U.K.. Probably some made both lists. But, to your point, ALL of those songs are written in the popular idiom and intended for radio play on commercial stations that cater to popular tastes. I don’t understand your incredulity. This is what Burt has done his entire professional career and continues to do to this day.
@Daniel_F_Azar2 жыл бұрын
I just stumbled on this video by chance and all I can say is THANK YOU for featuring Nadia Boulanger's story and music! I also can't wait for your next video on "Why listen to Lili Boulanger"! I recently started studying and performing their music as a singer and the experience is absolutely thrilling! My pianist says that "opening the door to their music is the most challenging part, but once you've overcome this initial hurdle, there is no going back". To me, however, their music directly spoke to my soul from the first moment... Huge fan right here, as you might be able to tell ;) Cheers!
@Ernie_Centofanti2 жыл бұрын
My composition professor at San Diego State University (1977-82) was the late David Ward-Steinman, my mentor. He studied under Nadia Boulanger, and had much to say about her tutelage.
@michaelvolkel57142 жыл бұрын
A great musician, composer and human being. And more than anything else I'm greatful, that she put so much efforts in keeping the music of her sister Lily alive, after she died in a very young age.
@DeGuerre2 жыл бұрын
The only other candidate for "greatest music teacher" that I can think of is Charles Villiers Stanford, who taught Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Rebecca Clarke, Arthur Benjamin, Ivor Gurney, George Dyson, Eugene Goossens, Leopold Stokowski, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (again, amongst many more).
@EJP286CRSKW2 жыл бұрын
Elgar was self-taught, and no Stanford fan. As for teachers, look up the pupils of Salieri and Liszt. Even within the English system, CHH Parry was not outshone by Stanford, and taught several of those on your list.
@DeGuerre2 жыл бұрын
@@EJP286CRSKW You're right about Elgar. Not sure where I got that from. Edited.
@stefanrogers98552 жыл бұрын
There's also Rimsky-Korsakov and Myaskovsky who both taught a huge number of famous composers
@arthurverlaine64342 жыл бұрын
There are always weel know connections between composers, and usually it's the trachers, scholars of masters becomes masters or techers of masters.
@DeGuerre2 жыл бұрын
@@arthurverlaine6434 Indeed. It's amazing to think that there is an unbroken line of student-teacher relationships between Muzio Clementi and Alan Belkin.
@alindley31282 жыл бұрын
My Dad studied with Nadia Boulanger for a year after college, before he met my mum, so I have stories about his year in Paris studying with Nadia Boulanger. He was in the same class of students as Joe Rappozo. Rappozo was the American jazz pianist who wrote the theme songs for the classic American children's television show called Sesame Street. My dad has anecdotes about how Rappozo would get teased in class by Boulanger because Rappozo was clearly the most talented student of that year, so Boulanger did her best to make the piano exercises as difficult as possible for Rappozo. But when Rappozo encountered financial difficulty midway through the year (he was attempting to support himself and his young wife by playing gigs while he also studied with Boulanger), Boulanger made certain to get Rappozo well-paying gigs so that he could afford to finish out his year of study with her. So she was kind at heart and cared about her students, even though she seemed to "pick on" some of them in class. Boulanger had a rule of composition that the C-major chord, namely do-mi-sol in the key of C major, should be a mainstay of good composition. My father says that he himself rebelled against what seemed to him to be such an arbitrary rule of composition, while Rappozo thrived on Bpulanger's strict composition rules. As a result of his studies with Boulanger, when Rappozo returned to America to continue his career after his year of study in Paris, Rappozo was hired by a progressive television company consisting of young idealistic writers attempting to use the new technology of broadcast public television to teach reading-readiness skills to inner city children. And as a result of Rappozo's being hired by the Children's Television Workshop to write the theme music to the TV show Sesame Street in the 1960's, even to this day, millions and millions of American children and adults know by heart a tune that follows Boulanger's favorite rule of composition: Use the C major chord! Almost all Americans under the age of sixty years can sing to you the Sesame Street tune that epitomizes this composition rule: Sun-ny Day, sweeping the ...clouds a-way!.... (Sol -mi -do, do re mi ....sol-mi-do!)
@ingvarhallstrom2306 Жыл бұрын
I never knew that about the Sesame Street theme, that it was infused with such genius. But I've always loved it, and I've always thought there was more to it than meets the eye. It's that Mozart line quality of something that is seemingly simple but in fact extremely intricate.
@bluebellbeatnik4945 Жыл бұрын
won't you tell me how to get, how to get to sesame street
She played a positive role when she taught a South African famous musician who was music professor and composer at the University of Cape Town, called Prof Peter Klatzow. Prof Klatzow used to tell us how lovely Ms Boulanger was in lecture hall!
@bobgold572 жыл бұрын
Beautiful job bringing her world and contemporaries--many who have sadly faded in their appreciation--to life. Thank you, and best wishes for your own course.
@composingchef2 жыл бұрын
My college professor was a student of hers and I had the privilege of learning from him. How lucky we are to continue on her knowledge.
@Tizohip2 жыл бұрын
my professor is close to Schoenberg Students, honor learn from him.
@Ernie_Centofanti2 жыл бұрын
The same goes for me. My college professor was a student of hers.
@organchoirman96982 жыл бұрын
One of my teachers in the Crane School of Music, Potsdam, NY, was a very close friend of Nadia Boulanger's. I learned interpretation of Faure's Requiem from this teacher who learned it from Nadia, who learned it from Faure. I love the connection I have with these wonderful women.
@joemiller952 жыл бұрын
I'm smiling as I'm listening. You said she knew the "entire Well-Tempered Clavier" by HEART, as if that is anything of significance for someone like Nadia. She probably knew that all by heart by the time she was nine. That was trivial for her. I think she knew virtually the entire literature by heart. Her ear was beyond anything most people have a clue is possible. If she could hear it she was reading the music in her head and vice versa. That's what all that solfege is about. And as far as Barenboim playing that trivially simple (from the point of view of that kind of transposition exercise) prelude? You said it like it was some kind of superhuman feat. She had MANY students who could sightread anything into any key. And I don't just mean simple pieces. I mean Beethoven sonatas at full speed. When I was there, she had us doing that, as rank beginners in her world, with Bach chorales, leaving out a voice and solfeging that voice, and as soon as we were able to do that, with our hands crossed. And she'd switch which voice we were singing. I once played her a bach Fugue, not knowing what she was capable of, and I let one note go an instant too soon, and she groaned and howled in the way she did with such things, and then she asked me to play the piece with my hands crossed, without the music, and I was baffled, Then she had one of her more advanced students come in and show me it could be done, but then she did the leave out a particular voice and solfege it instead thing. None of this is particularly impressive within the capabilities she and the people at her level had. I remember reading that Rubenstein could play the entire WTC, both books, in any key, regardless of the key Bach had written it in.
@centuryflower4 ай бұрын
So you were taught by Nadia Boulanger? These exercises sound amazing to me!
@hlcepeda2 жыл бұрын
I'm happy the video mentions Eliot Carter, a brilliant American composer who combined American musical innovation with traditional European music (and in a way that actually influenced Frank Zappa). Having studied under Nadia, Carter's own Counterpoint and Fugue submittal was considered so good by Nadia, that she used it in her classes as an example to her other students.
@johnpcomposer2 жыл бұрын
This was very interesting and worthwhile. The director of the youth orchestra I played in as a teen talked about studying with Nadia Boulanger. She was working on an oratorio and played the theme of the fugue she had written. Boulanger brushed it aside. "That's Handel". And so Dr. Rittenhouse went back to work and retyrbed with something that was her own...and this time Boulanger said, 'now you have something there'. It goes along with how she exhorted composers to find their own voices.
@dancertm2 жыл бұрын
One of my composition teachers studied with Boulanger. Much of what I learned came from her methodology and I feel honored to be a part of this tradition.
@stubbsmusic5432 жыл бұрын
Absolutely outstanding! What a tremendous presentation! My theory professor in college - Kent Werner - studied with her. He was tough, but thank God I had a good ear. Thank you so much for this. Keep up the good work, sir.
@ДіанаЦимбрикевич-з6е2 жыл бұрын
I love Nadia and Lili Boulanger. Thank you immensely for the video. It's inspiring to learn about them and listen to their music. Looking forward to watching your next video about Lili !
@AndreJorgeOliveira12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this very instructive video. Among the "many others" students of Nadia's are the Argentine Astor Piazzolla and the Brazilian Egberto Gismonti. Both of enormous musical importance. They have very successfully found their musical voices. Check them out.
@lnkd702 жыл бұрын
Great video! My Dad was one of her students before being a Messiaen’s student.
@TrevorduBuisson2 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant introduction, synopsis and account of Nadia Boulanger's life and legacy. 🤓🎼💝
@ggeonghe43712 жыл бұрын
From France Video Très touchante et inspirante ! Merci !
@AnnaKhomichkoPianist2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a great video. Women have never had it easy in composition career…
@MaximilianMKGill2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Man I watched your newest podcast episode and I really related I just turned 15 and got the complete Chopin etudes for my birthday.
@Felidae-ts9wp2 жыл бұрын
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎶
@MaximilianMKGill2 жыл бұрын
@@Felidae-ts9wp Thank you.
@jamespatagueule4599 Жыл бұрын
That's maybe the best video I've seen about Nadia... with passion and accuracy.
@normanspurgeon53242 жыл бұрын
Spectacular, inspiring video. It's really a shame that she was not driven to write a book, to reveal her insight into music.
@fedeveraFV2 жыл бұрын
Your videos are always inspiring. Thank you. Greetings from Argentina!
@jlingviolin2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the most in depth presentation of her I have found. I hope someone would compile detailed information about her teaching so we can all benefit.
@ezequielstepanenko32292 жыл бұрын
I became familiar with her and her sister because anytime I read of a famous musician or composer of the last century she was the teacher, so I thought it just couldn't be a coincidence, it reminds me of Salieri who, although he was quite a famous composer of his age, he is mostly famous now for having taught the greatest composer of his generation, and of course now for the movie
@rengevid2 жыл бұрын
How can we introduce the younger music generation to one of the greatest music professors of the 20th Century? I am saddened by so much lack of interest when it comes to teaching the younger generations today. Some are so eager and open to learn, while others think that they can just get by with so little and still succeed. My deepest regret is that I could not have spent more time being with this wonderful, incredible genius of a teacher, artists, and musician. The few months i visited Mademoiselle at the Conservatoire Americaine at Fontainebleau, changed my life considerably. The results were amazing, the hard work, learning the principal foundations of a greater musical heritage, has made me aware of the greatness that lives in all of us. Nadia Boulanger is my musical God-mother who turned on the lights inside my Being, allowing me to see and hear just what was necessary and above all categories permanent in my creative world. Her words of truth "seek out and find your own path (voice)" has remained with me for more than 46 years. I am forever and ever indebted to my moments with Mademoiselle Boulanger. These moments could never be described in words alone.
@robyncarrillo2 жыл бұрын
The European American Musical Alliance teaches her method. They are great!!!
@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Жыл бұрын
In most places on this Earth, learning to be a musician is more a luxury than a necessity. If the country you live in has no musical conservatory or you yourself isn't rich or friends with a musician then tough luck...
@emikarecords3 ай бұрын
Thank you this video inspired me so much. It’s edited very well. The tempo is great. And also the illustration of all of these people as people, their connections and relationships- super interesting! Inside the score is a great concept.
@WarrenHenry2 жыл бұрын
Learned about her while studying for my degree in music. Great video thanks
@PaulGTerry2 жыл бұрын
I had heard many great things about Nadia, but now I know many great things!
@KKIcons2 жыл бұрын
Yes I feel the same way. This was more clear than the other documentary by Monsaingeon about her biography. His documentary was more immersive since it sort of put you into her classroom environment. Which was also a great experience.
@chrisharrison8092 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a wonderful resource you are. This is some really good stuff brother. Thank you!!!
@pierre-henryfrohring12002 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, a real pleasure to watch. Thank you et aussi merci :)
@markszone2 жыл бұрын
I like the format of this video. Very professional and your narration is excellent!
@alexchristodoulou2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video Oscar, thank you for putting it together 👏
@fredericlinden Жыл бұрын
I have found this presentation very moving. What an incredible ear this woman had (listen to Bernstein speak about his encounter...) to be able to teach and play a vast repertoire. And what moral strength, integrity and generosity she exemplified. It is fair to say she really 'loved' her pupils..
@junemacauley72392 жыл бұрын
This is incredible. Ty so much!
@idraote2 жыл бұрын
She suffered the fate of all great teachers: they only shine through the achievements of their pupils. Like most teachers, she has no work of her own to shine through. And people don't care about teachers, only about divas. Which is something of a problem: she might not have been a genius like her sister but she certainly could have given us beautiful works.
@antoinekirmann25642 жыл бұрын
She did write a few compositions of her own : see three pieces for cello and piano or fantasy for piano and orchestra.
@ChollieD2 жыл бұрын
But then I'm an amateur guitarist in my 50s, and I've known about her for 30 years or so. And every classical musician I know does, too. How incredible to have taught Glass, Jones, John Adams, and Gardiner. Nobody has ever had a tutelage like that, not even Bach or Chopin.
@andrewfortmusic2 жыл бұрын
@Personal info So remind me why you’re watching this video in the first place?
@andrewfortmusic2 жыл бұрын
@Personal info I’m not sure what you mean by “your logic.” I’m not the original commenter. And I also don’t even really know what you mean by “no one cares about the kind of music you’re talking about.” What is that “kind of music” you referenced? You listen to Ravel (who happens to be my favorite composer), yes? Then why would you claim that no one cares about the kind of music the original commenter was referencing? I love the work of the Boulanger sisters, and I find myself agreeing with those who claim that Lili forms the third point of the Impressionist trifecta with Ravel and Debussy.
@DZPianoMusic2 жыл бұрын
To me, her MOST important student, was MY professor of piano, Samuel Dilworth-Leslie. Her methodology and musicianship lived on through him, and was passed on to me … for which I am grateful, and carry with pride and respect …
@tamzinbarnett47602 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this very informative and insightful video.
@thomassmith63442 жыл бұрын
Hello tamzin
@KarlRKaiser2 жыл бұрын
I studied music at the University of Chicago, and there my musical advisor, Easely Blackwood, had also been a student of NB in the 1960s. He is a pianist and composer who has also extensively studied microtonal tunings.
@ronaldjohnson98902 жыл бұрын
Easely Blackwood's microtonal etudes are the greatest things going! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpPYd4Omnq9_Z9E
@AuroreSibley8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this fantastic introduction to the work of Nadia Boulanger, and equally your video about Lili Boulanger.
@joaopedromachado8022 жыл бұрын
Looking forward for your next video.
@tarunsmusings47892 жыл бұрын
Keep the good work going... Your videos are my inspiration....
@orffrocks5667 Жыл бұрын
phenomenal lecture. im going to use it with my music students. thank you
@Annayasha2 жыл бұрын
What a fascinating woman, i knew her only by name becasue I watched a doc about Astor Piazzola, i'm glad that I found your marvelous video.
@newlywedbeth2 жыл бұрын
Oh, wow! When you said she tried to reproduce the fire bell, I thought of my son. At five, he tried to reproduce the train horn chords on our DX-7 keyboard. He did it. And kept doing it for weeks! Obsessed. And it was amazing. He has perfect pitch. When he was seven his piano teacher asked him to play a C. He played a C, then a C#, then a C chord, and a C# diminished. And named them. I didn't even know where he learned them! She said teaching him for the last four years has been like holding the reins of a runaway horse.
@anand18912 жыл бұрын
Just awe inspiring. Thank you!
@_malcolm2 жыл бұрын
A few of my professors also studied with her. It would have been nice to have met her. :)
@prototropo Жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh; this felt like a master class in appreciation biography, with extra benefits in music history, comparative music literature and the transcendent elements comprising the germinal code of tonal music that every competent musician should know and that theory, composition and conducting students must know. In fact, of the many gems of insight this video has shared, the most compelling for me was Boulanger's challenge to young Barenboim. How could she know, correctly, that he was even remotely capable of a musical feat that comes easy to very few, and only after struggle for most, and sends some students into paralytic cataplexy? To transpose, reflexively, a work in real time, in both its temporal, horizontal melodic journey and its vertical elevation of harmonic architecture, verifies his prodigy, obviously, but also proved something more impressive--her capacity for estimation of a student's mettle, which paralleled her assessments of historically great composers and the value of each in her pedagogy. This video was a real treat, and a privilege to meet Nadia virtually, hopefully absorbing an hour of her compositional intelligence. Thank you!
@navidhendrix2 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with Quincy Jones' quote at 17:44
@IRACEMABABU2 жыл бұрын
Charlie Parker studied with Nadia too, during a short period of time. It's simpler to make the list of the great musicians who didn't learn with her...
@bassmanxan35442 жыл бұрын
The piano part in Nadia's final song reminded me a lot of a piece we're preparing for my zone honor choir. We are actually singing one of Lili's works! If the other video is out about Lili I'll definitely have a look to see if it's in there, it's her "Hymne ou Soleil" for choir, piano, and solo contralto.
@kmvenezia43372 жыл бұрын
I remember reading somewhere that John Coltrane's Giant Steps was based on what he learned from Nadia B
@newsungsails36512 жыл бұрын
I loved reading about her in Philip Glass' memoir "Words Without Music". That's a great read! Thanks for giving me more insight into this remarkable person.
@joshuahu17212 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this and your talk with David is giving me a lot of inspirations!
@sophelet2 жыл бұрын
Great conductor Joseph Flummerfelt was also a student of Nadia Boulanger. I was fortunate to study with him and Stefan Young (a composer/theorist who studied with Boulanger) as a grad student at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. And as an undergraduate, I sang in a small chamber ensemble conducted by David Conte, who was one of Mlle Boulanger's last students. He has carried forth her pedagogy and knowledge with his students at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the summer course at Fontainebleu. Conte studied composition at Cornell University, where his teacher was Karel Husa--also a student of Boulanger. More remote connection, but still influential in my experience, are the many concerts conducted by Leonard Bernstein in which I sang as a member of Westminster Choir College Symphonic Choir. In these teachers and conductors I have been obliquely a student of Mlle Boulanger, and this has made my life richer.
@Carlos-qz7ul2 жыл бұрын
I would have liked a mention of Michel Legrand. Besides that, this is a very nice subject, told with insight and enthousiasm
@pedrocosta33112 жыл бұрын
Egberto Gismonti also studied with her; said she was very important in his music development.
@euripidiesupman97552 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1980's I bought a new Baldwin church organ for my house. The store where I bought it had Robert Hebble come and do a short class on hymn playing and registrations, which I attended. I was fortunate enough to become friends with Bob, although we lost touch several years ago. He passed away in February 2020. He was one of Nadia's students, and a fabulous composer, and worked closely with Virgil Fox on organ arrangements. I am a huge fan of Virgil's.
@edwardjohn5 Жыл бұрын
Oh my lord. This is so valuable. The information you've conveyed in this video... Thank you so much. So, so much.
@qalaphyll2 жыл бұрын
great! looking forward to the video on l. boulanger.
@timalan53762 жыл бұрын
I feel blessed that one of my music teachers was a student of hers. I once created some music I titled "Super Beautiful" to express how I feel about female human beings like her, her sister Lili, Hilary Hahn, Clara Scumann, Fanny Mendelssohn.
@RB-pi9ls2 жыл бұрын
Great profile of Nadia Boulanger!
@shortbrazilianguitartips57952 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sir. being from Brazil the great Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti and Argentinian Astor Piazzola also studied with her.
@samproctor40402 жыл бұрын
Emile Naoumoff, her last ever student said that she could sing every voice from every WTC fugue Can't wait for the Lili video
@jimmyg30282 жыл бұрын
Just about all my teachers studied under her. Best line was a teacher of mine studied under both, Boulanger & Messiaen & when both heard, they had the same comment; "Oh is he/she still alive?"
@timothyj.bowlby55242 жыл бұрын
That is just sooo true... "if you can play[/write] anything you want, then you play[/write] nothing." Spew/barf something/anything up onto paper... get an A -- that's no way to teach/learn composition... and it's an attitude that I've enountered everywhere I go, though NOT everyone follows it. Thank GOD.
@OctopusContrapunctus2 жыл бұрын
Can’t wait for the video of Lili: one of my favourites; Wonderful Video By the way
@meganbordelon2 жыл бұрын
Bravo! So well done and inspiring!
@thomassmith63442 жыл бұрын
Hello Megan
@SoundEngraver2 жыл бұрын
This is a very inspirational video. Boulanger's mission to better Americans in their musical education really spoke to me.
@martinhaub26022 жыл бұрын
Extremely interesting. I've been aware of her for decades but didn't really know much about her. It is amazing to learn about the pop composers who studied with her. The NYPO concertmaster was Michel Piastro. Not Plastro.
@AdamDavidFroman2 жыл бұрын
I did an essay on Nadia (and Lili) for a Women in Music class at university. I didn't reach the same conclusion as the narrator of this video, that Lili was on a whole other level from Nadia. Nadia was quite amazing.
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
I have a short biography of Nadia Boulanger so I am delighted to see your film. George Gershwin approached her, hoping he could study under her, but she declined.
@michelcamachomusic2 жыл бұрын
Not only her, Ravel also declined. It seems Gershwin already was a genius and found his own voice since that moment
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
@@michelcamachomusic I am looking forward to your film on the fugue. I have no technical knowledge of music so I need to learn a little.
@MrDSCH-ib2mx Жыл бұрын
Very great video on one of music's greatest and most influential teachers! By the way, the music of Stravinsky you used when you mentioned that Nadia Boulanger premiered Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, is actually not that concerto but another piece by Stravinsky called "Danses Concertantes".
@melanielynne04142 жыл бұрын
Quincy Jones? I am impressed by her love for all types of music. And the fact that she loved Beethoven. Sad to think she thought of herself as a failure.
@bluebellbeatnik4945 Жыл бұрын
Yeh Quincy Jones. You didn't know?
@Gregq962 жыл бұрын
This is so thorough! Could you do one on Hindemith?
@mancal58292 жыл бұрын
What a woman! I am without words!
@witneyskye55562 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the inspiration.
@emanuel_soundtrack2 жыл бұрын
her style of teaching is similar to what surived at Mozarteum University. Everything you should have the scores as main source and make sense practically. The good part that i keep also when i teach