Nadia Boulanger and Her World

"Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly the most prominent woman musician of her time. Her reputation was such that for any composer, but especially American composers--from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass--a pilgrimage to Paris to study with her was obligatory. But how to define and account for Boulanger's impact on the music world is still unclear. Composer, performer, conductor, impresario, as well as a teacher of great personal charisma and inspirational effect, Boulanger engaged in a vast array of activities in a variety of media, from composition to performance, from private lessons and lecture-recitals to radio broadcasts, conducting, and recording. Her life takes us from a time in the late nineteenth century when it was hardly conceivable for a woman to make a career in music to the moment in the late twentieth century when those careers were imaginable, thanks in great part to the example of Boulanger and others of her generation. Ultimately, this volume takes its title as a topic for exploration-looking at the geography of transatlantic and international exchange and disruption within which her career unfolded and asking what worlds Boulanger belonged to, and in what sense we can consider any of them to be "hers."--

Info autore

Jeanice Brooks is professor of music at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future between the Wars and Her Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeanice Brooks
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeanice Brooks (Editore), Brooks Jeanice (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9780226750712
• ISBN: 978-0-226-75071-2
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, Music reviews & criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Music reviews and criticism, Biography: arts and entertainment, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music