Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Apparatus and Critical Notes
- Note on Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Nadia Boulanger’s Life
- Introduction
- Part One Journalism, Criticism, Tributes
- Part Two Lectures, Classes, Broadcasts
- Bibliography of Nadia Boulanger’s Published Writing
- General Bibliography
- Index
“Concerts Colonne,” Le Monde Musical 30, no. 11 (November 1919): 36-28 (excerpt)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Apparatus and Critical Notes
- Note on Translations
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Nadia Boulanger’s Life
- Introduction
- Part One Journalism, Criticism, Tributes
- Part Two Lectures, Classes, Broadcasts
- Bibliography of Nadia Boulanger’s Published Writing
- General Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Concerts Reviewed
October 19, 1919
Symphony, D minor, César Franck
Nocturnes, “I: Nuages”; “II: Fêtes”; “III: Sirènes,” Claude Debussy
Evocations, op. 15, Albert Roussel
October 25, 1919
Symphony, D minor, César Franck
3 Pièces formant suite de concert, op. 40, “Variations en Ab mineur,” Gabriel Pierné
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Claude Debussy
La Péri, Paul Dukas
October 26, 1919
Rédemption, César Franck
Psyché, César Franck
Evocations, op. 15, Albert Roussel
November 1, 1919
Psyché, César Franck
Nocturnes, “I: Nuages”; “II: Fêtes”; “III: Sirènes,” Claude Debussy
La Péri, Paul Dukas
November 2, 1919
Chant funèbre, op. 9, Albéric Magnard
Les Heures dolentes, Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont
Chansons de Miarka, op. 17, “I: Les morts,” Ernest Chausson
Sur un vieil air, Charles Bordes
Proses lyriques, Claude Debussy
Trois ballades de Villon, Claude Debussy
Symphony no. 3 “Eroica,” E-flat major, op. 55, Ludwig van Beethoven
November 8, 1919
Les Heures dolentes, Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont
La Vie antérieure, E-flat major, Henri Duparc
Nocturne, César Franck
Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, “III: Le jet d’eau,” Claude Debussy Symphony no. 3 “Eroica,” E-flat major, op. 55, Ludwig van Beethoven
November 9, 1919
Der Freischütz, op. 77, “Overture,” Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Concerto no. 3, C minor, op. 37, Ludwig van Beethoven
Le Navire, Alfred Bruneau
Jour d’été à la montagne, op. 61, Vincent d’Indy
Rapsodie espagnole, Maurice Ravel
November 15, 1919
Der Freischütz, op. 77, “Overture,” Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Concerto no. 3, C minor, op. 37, Ludwig van Beethoven
Le navire, Alfred Bruneau
Jour d’été à la montagne, op. 61, Vincent d’Indy
Art begins where definition stops—thus reason seems unable to analyse it— and yet, art does not exist in its fullness except when it satisfies reason, when it responds to a logic of which we know only the results.
Can we accept, then, that its fundamental law is among those that remain unknown to us, while ruling over life and intelligence, and guiding us in such a way that without knowing anything, without needing to know the causes, we accomplish the effects with the obscure certainty or the clear awareness, according to our moral understanding, of obeying an established order, of continuing the movement that nothing can stop.
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- Nadia BoulangerThoughts on Music, pp. 97 - 104Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020