Klarinet Archive - Posting 000328.txt from 2003/07

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bernstein
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:57:58 -0400

Sorry...didn't mean to be unclear.

I wasn't arguing...only stating that I had gotten my sources
from the web about Bernstein (which can be quite precarious,)
and then making a joke about them being gone, so we couldn't ask
them to fight it out whether there was mentoring going on or
not. I didn't mean to make it seem like I wasn't believing
you...

(hiding under the table...)

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
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--- "Allen J. Levin" <alevin@-----.net> wrote:
> Let me restate this:
>
> I was a student of Boulanger in 1968. I spent many
> hours each
> week with her. I suggested to her that I thought that
> Bernstein was her
> student. She stated to me that they were friendly - that he
> had, on
> occasion, paid social visits to her; but that he never studied
> with
> her. In 1968 Bernstein was over 50, so I doubt that anything
> changed after
> that. He (and Copland and many others) did contribute to a
> memorial
> scholarship in her name at the school at Fontainebleau.
>
> Bernstein studied with Piston at Harvard. (Dr.
> Piston confirmed
> that to me in 1966 or 67.) And it is well known that he
> studied with Aaron
> Copland at Tanglewood. (The clarinet sonata reeks of that.)
>
> Piston and Copland studied theory with Boulanger. So
> did many of
> Bernstein's contemporaries. (David Diamond comes to mind.)
> Bernstein did
> not. If Bernstein's music had been influenced by her it would
> sound less
> like Copeland and more like Faure (her teacher). Boulanger did
> not even
> allow her own music to be played. She focused on that of her
> sister.
>
> Boulanger taught theory - harmony, counterpoint,
> solfege,
> reading. She specifically did not claim to teach composition.
> It is my
> impression (I don't remember any statement in so many words),
> that she
> thought that Bernstein's music went in too many directions
> according to the
> musical fad of the moment. Of course, she expressed
> mystification that so
> many Americans chose to study with her when their music went
> in directions
> not to her taste.
>
> Allen
>
>
> At 11:45 AM 7/9/03 -0700, you wrote:
> >There are lots of places on the web and in music history text
> >books with reference to Nadia Boulanger's influence in
> >Bernstein's progression as a composer.
>
>
>
>
>
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