Boulanger, Nadia. (1887–1979). Collection Related to Her 75th Birthday.
Collection of materials related to a trip taken by the important pianist and pedagogue to the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York in 1962 as part of her 75th birthday tour around the United States. Collection includes photographs, a photographic printer plate, a press release, assorted newspaper clippings, and a magazine. Overall in fine condition.
The photographs include a promotional headshot and two candid photographs taken during rehearsals, together with a photographic printer plate labelled "Please Return to / Office of College Information / State University Teachers College / Potsdam, New York" to verso. A two-page press release from The State University College announcing the trip reads in part "Nadia Boulanger of Paris will complete in Potsdam this weekend what Time magazine has described as her 'triumphal 75th birthday trip to the United States,' by directing the 300-voice Crane Chorus and Crane Symphony orchestra in a two performance concert at The State University College of Potsdam."
Newspaper clippings contain press coverage from The New York Times and other sources related to her trip, including this wonderful anecdote from Time magazine: "On a triumphal 75th birthday trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger...became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic...the 'tender tyrant' led the orchestra...with an authority that convinced the New York Times that 'she could hold up her end of the baton with most of her male colleagues.' Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: 'I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment.'" Together with School Edition of the October 1961 issue of Keyboard Jr., "The Magazine for Young Musicians," covering Boulanger and two composers she influenced, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin.
During the trip Boulanger was inducted as an Honorary Member into Sigma Alpha Iota, the international women's music fraternity, by the Gamma Delta chapter of the Crane School of Music.
Boulanger, Nadia. (1887–1979). Collection Related to Her 75th Birthday.
Collection of materials related to a trip taken by the important pianist and pedagogue to the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York in 1962 as part of her 75th birthday tour around the United States. Collection includes photographs, a photographic printer plate, a press release, assorted newspaper clippings, and a magazine. Overall in fine condition.
The photographs include a promotional headshot and two candid photographs taken during rehearsals, together with a photographic printer plate labelled "Please Return to / Office of College Information / State University Teachers College / Potsdam, New York" to verso. A two-page press release from The State University College announcing the trip reads in part "Nadia Boulanger of Paris will complete in Potsdam this weekend what Time magazine has described as her 'triumphal 75th birthday trip to the United States,' by directing the 300-voice Crane Chorus and Crane Symphony orchestra in a two performance concert at The State University College of Potsdam."
Newspaper clippings contain press coverage from The New York Times and other sources related to her trip, including this wonderful anecdote from Time magazine: "On a triumphal 75th birthday trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger...became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic...the 'tender tyrant' led the orchestra...with an authority that convinced the New York Times that 'she could hold up her end of the baton with most of her male colleagues.' Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: 'I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment.'" Together with School Edition of the October 1961 issue of Keyboard Jr., "The Magazine for Young Musicians," covering Boulanger and two composers she influenced, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin.
During the trip Boulanger was inducted as an Honorary Member into Sigma Alpha Iota, the international women's music fraternity, by the Gamma Delta chapter of the Crane School of Music.