Film Watch Party with the South FLorida Symphony

Nadia Boulanger was a force to be reckoned with in the 20th-century musical world. Teacher, composer, conductor, and scholar, Ms. Boulanger did it all. She crossed musical boundaries that others had not, and made a name for herself that is recognizable across the globe to this day.

For four decades sitting at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, if you were a composer of promise seeking to deepen your skill and find your voice, be you American or French, English or Japanese, there was one threshold that you sooner or later had to cross, one lair into which you had to descend and prove your mettle. Here, surrounded by a cadre of worshipful students, sat her time’s greatest composition teacher, and the authority on the sometimes confusing new directions music was beginning to gravitate towards, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979).

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