{"id":1157,"date":"2022-03-03T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2022-03-03T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:02:14","slug":"nadia-boulanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2022\/03\/03\/nadia-boulanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Boulanger, a Series of Unfortunate Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosenstiel\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nadia Boulanger, a life in music<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, gives a thorough account of Boulanger\u2019s entire life.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She paints a picture of a musician who, despite early success in competitions, would have her composition and performance career ruined by unfortunate circumstances and mistakes. One example of this is a Russian tour where Nadia was to assist Raoul Pugno, her mentor at the time. A tour which may have launched Boulanger\u2019s career, had it not been for Pugno\u2019s death. Boulanger losing both a close friend and the backing she needed to make it as a woman in music. After Pugno\u2019s death, the press described Boulanger as an assistant to Pugno\u2019s compositions, rather than as the collaborator she had been.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This and other events, including the death of her more successful sister lead to Boulanger giving up composition, later claiming that she \u201cwrote useless music\u201d. Rosenstiel laments this, wondering what would have happened if Boulanger\u2019s life had been slightly different. Writing about Boulanger\u2019s choice to prioritize immortalizing her sister\u2019s career over continuing her own: \u201cThis professional miscalculation, perhaps once again the result of bad advice, stubbornness, and a misplaced sense of duty, was only one of many that seemed always to bedevil her.\u201d (Rosenstiel 144)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1158\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2022\/03\/Lili_et_Nadia_Boulanger___...Agence_de_btv1b9022360s-209x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Picture of Nadia Boulanger and Lili Boulanger\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2022\/03\/Lili_et_Nadia_Boulanger___...Agence_de_btv1b9022360s-209x300.jpeg 209w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2022\/03\/Lili_et_Nadia_Boulanger___...Agence_de_btv1b9022360s-715x1024.jpeg 715w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2022\/03\/Lili_et_Nadia_Boulanger___...Agence_de_btv1b9022360s-105x150.jpeg 105w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2022\/03\/Lili_et_Nadia_Boulanger___...Agence_de_btv1b9022360s-768x1100.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2022\/03\/Lili_et_Nadia_Boulanger___...Agence_de_btv1b9022360s.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nadia Boulanger and her sister, Lili Boulanger (1913)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boulanger transitioned to focus on teaching, where she would ultimately enjoy the most success. Boulanger became a professor of harmony at the French Music School for Americans in Fontainebleau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rosenstiel, L\u00e9onie.\u00a0<i>The Life and Works of Lili Boulanger<\/i>. Rutherford, N.J: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosenstiel\u2019s Nadia Boulanger, a life in music, gives a thorough account of Boulanger\u2019s entire life.\u00a0She paints a picture of a musician who, despite early success in competitions, would have her composition and performance career ruined by unfortunate circumstances and mistakes. One example of this is a Russian tour where Nadia was to assist Raoul Pugno, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}