Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: The Only Woman in the Picture vii
4. Acknowledgments xiv
5. Permissions and Credits xv
6. The Strange Fate of Boulanger and Pugno’s La ville morte 1
7. Serious Ambitions: Nadia Boulanger and the Composition of La ville morte 19
8. From the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette 54
9. From Technique to Musique: The Institutional Pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger 85
10. Nadia Boulanger’s 1935 Carte du Tendre 118
11. 36 rue Ballu: A Multifaceted Place 123
12. “What an Arrival!” Nadia Boulanger’s New World (1925) 145
13. Modern French Music: Translating Fauré in America, 1925–1945 182
14. For Nadia Boulanger: Five Poems by May Sarton 222
15. Friend and Force: Nadia Boulanger’s Presence in Polish Musical Culture 229
16. “What Awaits Them Now?” A Letter to Paris 254
17. A Letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger 259
18. The Beethoven Lectures for the Longy School 263
19. Boulanger and Atonality: A Reconsideration 277
20. Why Music? Aesthetics, Religion, and the Ruptures of Modernity in the Life and Work of Nadia Boulanger 303
21. Index 350
22. Notes on the Contributors 361