Klarinet Archive - Posting 000794.txt from 2001/09

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Bernstein Sonata
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:03:28 -0400

>had due to his studies with Boulanger (and there are certain stylistic
>family resemblances in all her students).

As a student of Nadia Boulanger, I suggest that there is a lot of donkey
dung in the foregoing assumption. In the first place, she didn't teach
composition, she taught theory and appreciation. Her students had to go to
others for composition lessons. To the extent that many of her students
developed a "French" quality in their music, I suggest that they were
inclined in that way before they studied with her. France was the place to
be after WW I. She was as much a part of the tour as a left bank
bistro. She was much more popular with American students - and British
students thanks to that great expatriate, Menuhin - than with French
students.

Allen Levin

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