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Nadia Boulanger

August 30, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the New York Times: She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. A festival broadens our understanding of Nadia Boulanger, the pathbreaking composer, conductor and thinker. By William Robin July 30, 2021 Nadia Boulanger on Wikipedia

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Feminism Tagged: Aaron Copland, classical music, France, French, French composers, Lili Boulanger, Monteverdi, Nadia Boulanger, pedagogy, Philip Glass, Prix de Rome, Quincy Jones, Raoul Pugno, Villa Medici, Virgil Thomson

FIP

July 19, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I am reading an article in the Atlantic – “What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?”. I do use some music streaming services and there is one which I think is an exceptional value, because it is free. I first heard of FIP while living in Switzerland. A friend of ours who … [Read more…]

Posted in: IT Failures, Modern Music, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Brewster Kahle, ELECTRO, FIP, France, French, GROOVE, Internet Archive, jazz, MONDE, NOUVEAUTÉS, POP, Radio France, REGGE, ROCK, Spotify, streaming, www.fip.fr

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