🎹 What do Quincy Jones, George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla have in common? You guessed right, their music professor: Nadia Boulanger. But what made a jazz, a classical music and a tango master travel all the way to Paris to study with her? And to be honest, there are plenty more composers who flew and sailed from far away to meet her, like Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand,… Discover in this episode what made “Mademoiselle” Boulanger the Yoda of modern music.
🎬 Watch Bruno Monsaingeon's "Mademoiselle" (1977), a documentary about Nadia Boulanger (in French with English subtitles): https://youtu.be/V2GX69XxxyE
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