1962 Nadia Boulanger conducting Lili Boulanger Virgil Thomson Reri Grist Gramm

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1962 Nadia Boulanger conducting Lili Boulanger Virgil Thomson Reri Grist Gramm 1962 Nadia Boulanger conducting Lili Boulanger Virgil Thomson Reri Grist Gramm New York Philharmonic, 120th Season, 1961-1962 Leonard Bernstein music director Original, printed programme insert for a New York Philharmonic concert given under Nadia Boulanger , with Reri Grist and Donald Gramm the soloists in Faure Carnegie Hall, New York17 February 1962, Saturday Evening, at 8.30 965th broadcast over the CBS Radio Network Faure Requiem Mass, Op. 48 Thomson A Solemn Music First performances in orchestral version, prepared especially for Nadia Boulanger Lili Boulanger Psalm 130, 'Du fond de l'abime' Lili Boulanger Psalm 129, 'Ils m'ont assex opprime' Lili Boulanger Psalm 24, 'La terre appartient a l'Eternel' Reri Grist soprano Donald Gramm baritone Vernon de Tar organist Marguerite Pacquet mezzo-soprano Robert Eckert tenor Nadia Boulanger conductor Radio membership editionProgram notes by Edward Downes and Virgil Thomson ; vocal texts in Latin or French, with English translations; full list of orchestral playersBiographical note for Boulanger - 'Nadia Boulanger, who honors us by returning to the podium… for an advance celebration of her seventy-fifth birthday… She is a fabulously sensitve and communicative conductor… Her influence on contemporary American music is incalculable… The merest sampling of the names of American composers who have been her students is staggering : … Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland… Roy Harris… Walter Piston… Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson' 9" x 5½" (22cm x 14cm), 8 pages Condition : Good. Light pressure and handling marks to cover. A clean copy I will package carefully and am happy to post worldwide : UK £1.25, Europe £2.50, Worldwide £4 (Postage combined and reduced for multiple purchases posted together) Please see also my other classical concert & opera programmes program programm programmes programmheft From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Juliette Nadia Boulanger ([ ʒ y.lj ɛ t na.dja bu.l ɑ̃ .ʒ e]; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century. From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that she had no particular talent as a composer she gave up writing music and became a teacher. In that capacity she influenced generations of young composers, especially those from America and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were those who became leading soloists, composers, and conductors, including Aaron Copland, John Eliot Gardiner, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Philip Glass, and Ástor Piazzolla.Boulanger taught in the US and England, working with music academies including the Juilliard School, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Longy School, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, but her principal base for most of her life was her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92.Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major orchestras in America and Europe, including the BBC Symphony, Boston Symphony, Hallé, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia orchestras. She conducted several world premieres, including works by Copland and Stravinsky.BiographyAncestry and early yearsBoulanger's father, Ernest (1815–1900), was a composer and pianist who studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won the coveted Prix de Rome for composition in 1835. He wrote comic operas and incidental music for plays, but was most widely known for his choral music – he also achieved distinction as a director of choral groups, teacher of voice and a member of choral competition juries. After years of rejection, he was appointed to the Paris conservatoire as professor of singing in 1872.[1]Her mother, Raissa (1856–1935), ... read more

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