Nadia Boulanger
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Nadia Boulanger
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#2Testimonials of her knowledge and talent are awe-inspiring. I've known or met in passing several composers and musicians who studied with her. She taught so many of that era. If interested in this sort of thing, there is a list of some of her students [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_students_by_teac...
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#3Nice used to listen to The Grid by Philip Glass a lot
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#4My favourite quote (among many) from her is "write exactly what you hear and never strain to avoid the obvious". I think this is such an amazing principle to follow including in software design. So often I see systems where there is an obvious solution which would be simple and clean and just work and people go out of their way to avoid it so they can follow some pattern or received wisdom about how things should go.
Never strain to avoid the obvious.
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#5My favourite quote (among many) from her is "write exactly what you hear and never strain to avoid the obvious". I think this is such an amazing principle to follow including in software design. So often I see systems where there is an obvious solution which would be simple and clean and just work and people go out of their way to avoid it so they can follow some pattern or received wisdom about how things should go.…
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#6Testimonials of her knowledge and talent are awe-inspiring. I've known or met in passing several composers and musicians who studied with her. She taught so many of that era. If interested in this sort of thing, there is a list of some of her students [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_students_by_teac...
BTW some of the people on that list that might not be household names are none the less completely astonishing. I mean everyone knows Aaron Copland and Quincy Jones but for example, if you have not ever done so, you owe it to yourself to check out Egberto Gismonti[1].
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#7She sounds like an INTJ, I love INTJs
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#8The article mentions her sister Lili, who most people have never heard of. Here are two beautiful short compositions she wrote at age 18 and 22. She died at 24. What a loss!
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#9The article mentions her sister Lili, who most people have never heard of. Here are two beautiful short compositions she wrote at age 18 and 22. She died at 24. What a loss! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ifMZotkh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguzDNqTX7s
And unlike her sister, she actually won the Prix de Rome!
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#10The article mentions her sister Lili, who most people have never heard of. Here are two beautiful short compositions she wrote at age 18 and 22. She died at 24. What a loss! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ifMZotkh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguzDNqTX7s
Yes. The article says she died from exhaustion from helping soldiers in WWI, but Wikipedia says the died of tuberculosis, which sounds more realistic?