“A wonderful evening of music and humanity conjured up for us. It was a triumph!”
Barry Kempton | Schubert Club Director
Nadia Boulanger
Called “the best teacher since Socrates” by Ned Rorem, Nadia Boulanger attracted over 10,000 students, including many from America such as Aaron Copland and Quincy Jones. She was the first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony, the NY Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic, and she shattered the glass ceiling for women in music, becoming a full professor at the Paris Conservatoire after years of directing The American Conservatory at Fontainebleau.
Editor to Stravinsky, Assistant Organist to Faure, Music Critic for Le Monde, Lecturer for Harvard, Rice, Princeton, Wellesley, BBC and NBC, Nadia did it all. But her compelling story of looking for genius in each human she met after her sister Lili died, is largely unknown.