Mademoiselle: A Portrait of Nadia Boulanger

Duration: 56

Year Published: 1987

Creator: Crocus Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Chronicles the life of world-renowned music teacher Nadia Boulanger from her childhood in turn-of-the-century Paris through her work at the French Conservatory. Throughout her celebrated career, Mlle Boulanger's commitment to teaching remained absolute. She explains how her love of music and enthusiasm for learning provided the basis for her life's work. Her students include some of this century's most respected names in music, among them Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Virgil Thomson, Michel Legrand, Louise Talma. They describe, often in reverential terms, the effect this indomitable woman had on their lives. Narrated by Quincy Jones, yet another student of Mlle Boulanger.