at the University of Colorado, Boulder
October 7 - 9, 2004
Pictures from the Conference
-:- Guest Chairs, Presenters & Performers -:-
Thursday, October 7, 2004
- 9:00 - 5:00 Registration [Main Lobby, Imig Music Building]
- 10:00 Welcome and reception [CU Museum Lobby]
KEYNOTE SESSION: BOULANGER, THE EARLY YEARS
Chair: Thérèse Casadesus Rawson, Fontainebleau
- 1:00 "Before Nadia: The French Training of American Composers"
Brian Doherty (Arizona State University) - 1:30 "A Complex Heritage: Nadia Boulanger's Collections"
Laurence Languin (Médiatèque Nadia Boulanger, Lyons Conservatoire) - 2:15 "The Franco-American Committee and the Beginnings of the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau"
Alexandra Laederich (Fondation Internationale Nadia et Lili Boulanger) - 3:00 "Mademoiselle's Fontainebleau"
Kendra Leonard (Loveland, Ohio) - 3:30 break
BOULANGER SONGS
- 4:30 CONCERT
- 5:30 Dinner Break
Thérèse Casadesus Rawson (Fontainebleau)
Eugenia Oi Yan Yau (Borough of Manhattan College, City University of New York)
Shelia Kearny Converse (Washington State University)
SESSION 3 [Grusin Recital Hall, Imig Music Building]
BOULANGER'S PEDAGOGY: PART 1
Chair: Don Campbell, Boulder, Colorado
- 7:30 "Boulanger's Pedagogy"
Donna Doyle (Manhattan School of Music)
Christel Nies (Kassel, Germany)
Robert Levin (Harvard University)
Emile Naoumoff (Indiana University)
After Panel [C-113, Imig Music Building]
Fontainebleau Alumni Reception (for all alumni attendees)
Hosted by Don Campbell
Friday, October 8, 2004
SESSION 4 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
THE MANY ROLES OF NADIA BOULANGER
Chair: Harriet Simons, State University of New York at Buffalo
- 8:30 "Useful for Education and Pleasure: Nadia Boulanger as a Performer of Music History"
Jeanice Brooks (Southampton University) - 9:00 "Nadia Boulanger, Composer"
Stéphan Etcharry (Université Paris IV, Sorbonne) - 9:30 "Nadia Boulanger and Marie-Blanche de Polignac"
Sylvia Kahan (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
SESSION 5 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
NADIA BOULANGER AT RUE BALLU
Chair: Antonia Banducci, University of Denver
- 10:00 LECTURE/RECITAL "Nadia Boulanger's First American Student, Marion Bauer"
Peggy Holloway & Janet Morrow King - 10:30 "Fauré, Nadia Boulanger, and Copland: The Nature of Influence"
Edward R. Phillips (University of Guelph) - 11:00 "Fauré chez Piston: Nadia Boulanger and the Bequest of a Style"
Carlo Caballero (University of Colorado, Boulder) - 11:30 Musical Moment: Three Pieces for Double Bass and Piano
by Nadia Boulanger (1911)
Paul Erhard (University of Colorado, Boulder) - 11:45 Lunch Break
SESSION 6 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
NADIA BOULANGER IN THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Howard Pollack, University of Houston
- 1:00 "Nadia Boulanger's Three Lectures in Houston"
Walter Bailey (Rice University) - 1:30 "Nadia Boulanger and Helen Hosmer at the Crane School of Music"
Nelly Maude Case (SUNY Potsdam) - 2:00 LECTURE RECITAL [Grusin Recital Hall]
"The Music of Copland, Allen Shawn, Virgil Thomson and Ingolf Dahl"
Bugallo-Williams Duo (Northwestern University) - 2:45 Break
SESSION 7 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
NADIA BOULANGER'S IMPACT ON AMERICAN MUSIC EDUCATION
Chair: Sue Williamson, University of Colorado at Boulder
Julie Dunbar (Edgewood College)
Anna Marie Flusche (Houston)
Deborah Hayes (University of Colorado at Boulder) Emeritus
SESSION 8 [St. John's Episcopal Church of Boulder--corner of Pine Street and 14th Street, Boulder]
CHORAL AND ORGAN MUSIC BY AND FOR NADIA AND LILI BOULANGER
- 8:00 CONCERT **
Frances Nobert (Whittier College)
Elizabeth Farr (University of Colorado, Boulder)
St. Martin's Chamber Choir (Denver, Colorado)
Collegiate Chorale (University of Colorado at Boulder)
including David Conte's Prelude and Fugue (In Memoriam Nadia Boulanger), Ken Cowan, organ.
Saturday, October 9, 2004
SESSION 9 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
BOULANGER'S PEDAGOGY: PART 2
Chair: Alejandro Cremaschi, University of Colorado
- 8:15 "Nadia Boulanger and the Passacaglia"
Douglas Bomberger (University of Hawai'i) - 8:45 "Nadia Boulanger's Approach to Style Analysis and Harmony"
Jay Gottlieb (Paris)
David Conte (San Francisco Conservatory)
SESSION 10 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
REMINISCENCE ROUNDTABLE
Chair: David Ward-Steinman (San Diego State University)
- 10:30 Reminiscence Roundtable
All students of Nadia Boulanger are invited to share observations and favorite stories in this session. - 11:15 RECITAL
Elaine Funaro, harpsichord
Noel Lee, piano - 12:15 Lunch Break
SESSION 11 [Grusin Recital Hall, Imig Music Building]
KEYBOARD MUSIC OF BOULANGER PUPILS: TWO SHORT PROGRAMS
SESSION 12 [C-199, Imig Music Building]
NADIA BOULANGER'S STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD
Chair: William Kearns (University of Colorado at Boulder, Emeritus)
- 1:30 "Nadia Boulanger's Lasting Imprint on Canadian Post-War Music"
Pr. Jean Boivin (University of Sherbrooke) - 2:00 "Nadia Boulanger and Louise Talma"
Luann Dragone (New York) - 2:30 Break
- 2:45 "Aaron Copland's Paris of the 1920s and Its Effect on Grohg"
Roberta Lindsey (Indiana University, Indianapolis) - 3:15 "John Vincent and Nadia Boulanger"
Craig Parker (Kansas State University) - 3:45 LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION Robert Xavier Rodriguez on His Own Music
SESSION 13 [Grusin Recital Hall, Imig Music Building]
SONGS AND INTERMEZZI BY AMERICAN STUDENTS OF BOULANGER
Leonard Lehrman and Helene Williams (Valley Stream, New York)
SESSION 14 [Grusin Recital Hall, Imig Music Building]
THE MUSIC OF DANIEL PINKHAM
"The Music of Daniel Pinkham"
** indicates separately priced ticket events open to the general public as well as conferees
[approx. $100 dollars for all four events]
REGISTRATION FEE FOR ALL SESSIONS, except the separate ticket events, is $125 US. Discount for students. Payment can be made by cash, check or credit card beforehand or at the time of the symposium. For further information, contact amrc@colorado.edu or (303) 735-3645.
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The Center shares its activities with faculty, scholars and the public through concerts, publications
and sponsorship of scholarly activities, such as symposia and lectures. It serves as a research archive
for performers as well as community members who wish to preserve American music and enhance its cultural
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