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Boulanger’s Paris

Published:November 6, 2009, 6:59 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 2:54 AM

Next Friday at UB, a unique program will take us back to a time and a place important to 20th century music. That would be 1910s to 1950s Paris, where ambitious composers flocked to study with the great teacher Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger’s students included Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and tango master Astor Piazzolla. She brought people together and created a community of music and experimentation.

Atribute to Boulanger’s Paris is being presentedbyMusicfromCoplandHouse, the residentensembleatAaron Copland’s longtimeNewYork home, recently restored asa landmarkcenter forAmerican music. Anchoringtheensemble are pianistMichael Boriskin, flutistPaulLustigDunkel, violinist Nicholas Kitchenof the BorromeoStringQuartet, and cellistWilhelminaSmithof the MannesTrio. They are typically joinedbyavariety ofguest artists.

The concert begins with three pieces for cello and piano by Boulanger. The evening continues with Stavinsky’s 1920 Concertino for String Quartet; Copland’s 1937 Sextet; and “Primavera Portena” from Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.” Concluding the night is the Fantasia for String Trio, a 1956 piece by Irving Fine, who studied with Boulanger in Paris and worked with Copland at Harvard.

The concert begins at 7:30 p. m. next Friday in Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall, UB North Campus. Admission is $12 in advance, or $20 at the door. For information, call 645-2921.

—Mary Kunz Goldman

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