A TRIBUTE TO NADIA BOULANGER 1 & 2
Met medewerking van Bruno Monsaingeon, Idil Biret, Jay Gottlieb, Emile Naoumoff, Cédric Segond-Genovesi en Malcolm Singer. Onder leiding van Elmer Schönberger
16:00 OPENING ACT: A TRIBUTE TO NADIA BOULANGER 1
BRUNO MONSAINGEON MEETS ‘MADEMOISELLE’ NADIA BOULANGER
16:00 Documentary Mademoiselle (54’, Bruno Monsaingeon)
17:00 Lecture by Bruno Monsaingeon and audience discussion
Master director Bruno Monsaingeon started his career in documentary films with a portrait of the legendary French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, entitled Mademoiselle, as Nadia was called by everybody. Monsaingeon also wrote the eponymous 1985 book.
Speaking about his encounters with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau, where she ran her ‘private conservatory’, Monsaingeon will appear this afternoon during the Young Pianists Festival. His lecture will be preceded by a screening of the documentary Mademoiselle from 1977, released on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
Box office open from 15:00
19:30 MAIN ACT: A TRIBUTE TO NADIA BOULANGER 2
ENCOUNTERS WITH ‘MADEMOISELLE’ NADIA BOULANGER
‘Mademoiselle’ Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was one of the most influential music teachers of the 20th century, the teacher of among others Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Dinu Lipatti, Philip Glass and Astor Piazolla.
Some of her top students after 1957, Idil Biret, Emile Naoumoff, Jay Gottlieb en Malcolm Singer and Ph. D. Cédric Segond-Genovesi, will speak tonight with Elmer Schönberger about Mademoiselle’s music and life lessons, and about the extensive influence her work has had.
For more information: www.ypf.nl/festival
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