Noble et grande servante de la musique: Telling the story of Nadia Boulanger's conducting career

Journal of Musicology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 92-116

  Brooks, Jeanice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 5644257383     PISSN: 02779269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/763959     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Edwin H. Schloss, "Mile Boulanger Directs Orchestra - Conductor Impressive on Podium," Philadelphia Record, 11 March 1939
2. See Carolyn Heilbrun, Writing A Woman's Life (New York, 1988; paperback edition, New York, 1989), 33-38
3. and Sidonie Smith, A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginal-ity and the Fictions of Self-Representation (Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987), 20-35
4. Further on the problems of female self-representation in the public arena, see Patricia Meyer Spacks, "Selves in Hiding," in Estelle C. Jelinek, ed., Women's Autobiography: Essays in Criticism (Bloomington and London, 1980), 112-32
5. Glenn Dillard Gunn, "The Present Meets the Past: Mlle Boulanger's Vocal Ensemble at the Library of Congress," Washington Times Herald, 17 April 1939
6. Moses Smith, "Homage to Boulanger: Remarkable Concert of Philharmonic in N.Y. Shows Her Varied Genius," Boston Evening Transcript, 13 February 1939
7. K. T. Ozzard, "Enter A Woman Conductor," Boston Evening Transcript, 16 February 1938
8. Writing A Woman's Life, 20-23
9. See also Spacks, "Selves in Hiding," 113-17
10. Louis Biancolli, "Boulanger Gives Views on Careers," New York World Telegram, 11 February 1939
11. Smith, A Poetics of Women's Autobiography, 52-56
12. "Women's Orchestras in the United States, 1925-1945" in Jane Bowers and Judith Tick, eds., Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 (Urbana, IL, 1986), 349
13. For further information on female orchestras and conductors, see Neuls-Bates, ed., Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present (New York, 1982), 247-50
14. The paradoxical position of New Right spokeswomen has been most recently and mercilessly exposed by Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women (London, 1991), 270-89
15. Bruno Monsaingeon, Mademoiselle: Entretiens avec Nadia Boulanger (Paris, 1981), 95
16. "Everyone knows how fluent an artist is Nadia Boulanger, who sets herself at the piano not to show off her virtuosity, but to serve the music." Le Monde Musical, 30 June 1934
17. W. H. Haddon Squire, "Nadia Boulanger as Conductor," Monitor, 29 December 1936
18. "Boulanger Gives Views," 11 February 1939 (see above)
19. Newsweek, 13 February 1939 [review of Carnegie Hall concert, 11 February 1939]
20. Heilbrun, Writing A Woman's Life, 21
21. Goehr, The Imaginary Museum, is mainly concerned with discussing the philosophical basis of the work concept, its history and development, and the attending notion of Werktreue
22. The beginnings of the debate between "creative" and "recreative" conducting stretched back well into the nineteenth century. See José A. Bowen, "Mendelssohn, Berlioz, and Wagner as Conductors: The Origins of 'Fidelity to the Composer'," Performance Practice ReviewVI/1 (1993), 77-88. A more comprehensive history of the ideology of performance is forthcoming in Bowen, The Conductor and the Score: A History of the Relationship Between Interpreter and Text, vol. 1, The Nineteenth Century (Oxford)