Thread by @seatedovation

I wrote about the still-misunderstood Nadia Boulanger, for @nytimesmusic

nytimes.com/2021/07/30/art…

So grateful to @KimFrancisPhD and @jeanice_brooks for sharing their scholarship and wisdom!!

there's a lot of amazing Boulanger scholarship out there that I read for this piece, starting with the great Boulanger and Her World volume edited for Bard by @jeanice_brooks
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

I highly recommend Brooks's book "The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger" for fascinating insights into her musical ideology and how it shaped her performance career

cambridge.org/core/books/mus…

These two journal articles by @jeanice_brooks are also excellent:

online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-a…

jstor.org/stable/763959

(happy to send PDFs to anyone who can't get access!)

And @carolinefrmus's book is great for understanding the Boulanger sisters and their music

routledge.com/Nadia-and-Lili…

I highly recommend @KimFrancisPhD's book on Boulanger and Stravinsky -- it's about a fascinating musical friendship but also gives really rich insights into Boulanger as a person

global.oup.com/academic/produ…

And of course Annegret Fauser's incredible work on the Boulangers and women competitors for the Prix de Rome:

jstor.org/stable/831898

and her article on Lili's "La princesse maleine"

jstor.org/stable/766554

I ultimately couldn't find a place for it in the piece, but I also appreciated @K_Leonard_PhD's important critique of Boulanger, especially about her anti-Semitism

kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org/2018/04/05/mad…

And I also appreciated @KimFrancisPhD's nuanced take, in her book, on Nadia Boulanger's anti-Semitism

Finally, I'm super grateful to @KimFrancisPhD for sharing her forthcoming article in Women & Music on the Boulanger sisters' correspondence (both the lede and kicker were inspired by it!)