Nadia Boulanger and Her World

Jeanice Brooks is professor of music at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future between the Wars and Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France.

• Preface: The Only Woman in the PictureAcknowledgmentsPermissions and CreditsThe Strange Fate of Boulanger and Pugno’s La ville morteALEXANDRA LAEDERICHTRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE MANDELLSerious Ambitions: Nadia Boulanger and the Composition of La ville morteJEANICE BROOKS AND KIMBERLY FRANCISFrom the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory GazetteEDITED BY NADIA AND LILI BOULANGERSELECTED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSERTRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANNFrom Technique to Musique: The Institutional Pedagogy of Nadia BoulangerMARIE DUCHÊNE-THÉGARIDTRANSLATED BY MIRANDA STEWARTNadia Boulanger’s 1935 Carte du TendreINTRODUCED BY MARIE DUCHÊNE-THÉGARIDINTRODUCTION TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN36 rue Ballu: A Multifaceted PlaceCÉDRIC SEGOND-GENOVESITRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN“What an Arrival!”: Nadia Boulanger’s New World (1925)NADIA BOULANGERTRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY JEANICE BROOKSAFTERWORD BY GAYLE MURCHISONModern French Music: Translating Fauré in America, 1925–45JEANICE BROOKSFor Nadia Boulanger: Five Poems by May SartonMAY SARTONINTRODUCED BY JEANICE BROOKSFriend and Force: Nadia Boulanger’s Presence in Polish Musical CultureANDREA F. BOHLMAN AND J. MACKENZIE PIERCE“What Awaits Them Now?”: A Letter to ParisZYGMUNT MYCIELSKITRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY J. MACKENZIE PIERCEA Letter from Professor Nadia BoulangerTRANSLATED BY J. MACKENZIE PIERCEThe Beethoven Lectures for the Longy SchoolINTRODUCED BY CÉDRIC SEGOND-GENOVESITRANSLATED BY MIRANDA STEWARTBoulanger and Atonality: A ReconsiderationKIMBERLY FRANCISWhy Music? Aesthetics, Religion, and the Ruptures of Modernity in the Life and Work of Nadia BoulangerLEON BOTSTEINIndexNotes on the Contributors

“As editor and contributor Brooks has done a fine job, mixing judiciously chosen source materials with carefully researched scholarly articles, plus photographs, scores and handwritten documents. Her book fulfills an academic agenda but, more importantly, to read it feels like spending time in Boulanger’s world, understanding a little better who she was and what she experienced as a human being.”