Kimberly A. Francis - Teaching Stravinsky

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Francis, Kimberly A., 1979
Teaching Stravinsky : Nadia Boulanger and the consecration of a modernist icon / Kimberly A. Francis.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780199373697 (hardback : alk. paper)
eISBN 9780190463663. Boulanger, Nadia.2. Stravinsky, Igor, 18821971AppreciationHistory.3. Stravinsky, Igor, 18821971Friends and associates.4. Boulanger, NadiaFriends and associates.I. Title.
ML423.B52F73 2015
780.922dc23
2014044365

This volume is published with the generous support of the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For Brian, Emily, and Ellison
and
in memoriam, Don Campbell

A project of this magnitude would have been impossible without the support of colleagues, friends, and family, to whom I am endlessly grateful. I welcome this opportunity to single out a few of those responsible for making this work come to life.

To Suzanne Ryan, her assistant Adam Cohen, and the editorial team at Oxford University Press, my thanks for your belief in the value of this work and for your patience while steering me toward the finish line. Special thanks are also due to the anonymous OUP reviewers who through their trenchant and provocative feedback shaped this book in deeply meaningful ways.

Invaluable financial support for this research was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the American Association of University Women, the Office of Research of the University of Guelph, the American Musicological Society, the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and private donations from Don Campbell. Earlier versions of portions of this book were read in Canada, the United States, and England. My thanks to workshop organizers, session chairs, and participants, particularly Dawn Cornelio, Elizabeth Keathley, Barbara Kelly, Christopher Moore, Jann Pasler, Caroline Rae, Joseph Straus, and Stephen Walsh for their erudite and immensely helpful feedback.

The majority of my research was conducted in archives throughout North America and Europe, facilitated by the brilliance and generosity of skilled staff. My heartfelt thanks are due to Catherine Massip and Elisabeth Giuliani of the Dpartement de la Musique of the Bibliothque Nationale de France; Ulrich Mosch, Heidy Zimmermann, Johanna Blask, and the staff of the Paul Sacher Stiftung along with John Stravinsky for his generous support with publishing documents from the Stravinsky collection; Christiane Kriloff and Laurence Languin of the Mdiathque Nadia Boulanger of the Conservatoire national suprieur de musique et de danse, Lyon Lyon; Sarah Dorsey and Kendra Preston Leonard for sharing their knowledge of the Louise Talma papers at the Library of Congress and Amy McLaughlin and Cheryl Young of the MacDowell Colony for their permission to reprint excerpts from Talmas materials; Sylvie Visinand of the Thodore Strawinsky Foundation; Jonathan Hiam of the Music Division of the New York Public Library; Samantha Blake of the British Broadcasting Companys Written Archives Centre; Ian Rawes of the British Library Sound Archives; and Tom Riis and Eric Harbeson of the American Music Research Center.

A special thanks is owed to Don Campbell, who invited me to consult his private archives and discuss our mutual love of Nadia Boulanger only a year before his passing. His faith in my work will always be treasured, and I only hope this book can stand as a small testament to his own indefatigable defense of Boulanger and passion for the power of music to improve life and heal. My thanks to those within Dons orbit and additional alumni whose memories have enhanced the pages of this book, especially Narcis Bonet, David Conte, Emile Naoumoff, Caroline Shuster Fournier, and Philip Lasser, along with the faculty of the European American Music Alliance. I would also like to thank Schott Music and Boosey & Hawkes for graciously allowing me to reprint material here as well as the University of Nebraska Press, who allowed for the republishing of material found in , exploration 1.

I am deeply thankful to Alexandra Laederich, whose title of delgue gnrale of the Centre internationale Nadia et Lili Boulanger does little to convey her role as the epicenter of all things Boulanger. Her support, encouragement, and kindness have touched the far corners of this project and enabled me to share some incredible documents from the Boulanger collection. For this and so much more, I thank her. My thanks also to Jeanice Brooks, who has been involved in this project since the very beginning and whose encyclopedic knowledge of Boulanger and her world continue to serve as the benchmark to which I strive. For her generosity, both professional and personal, over the course of this project I am incredibly grateful.

My work has been deeply enriched by the vibrant community of colleagues in which it has been my privilege to participate these past four years. My thanks to Amanda Boetzekes, Susan Douglas, James Harley, Sally Hickson, John Kissick, Dominic Marner, Marta McCarthy, Paola Meyer, Sandra Parmegiani, and Howard Spring for forming such a lovely academic community. I am especially indebted to Christina Smylitopoulos, who patiently and often with brilliant insights unknotted with me many of the more complex issues faced in this text. Her open office door is always a welcome sight. To Dawn Cornelio, who effortlessly and selflessly worked with me in polishing the translations contained within this text, I owe more than I could ever repay. Victor Fernandez and Cline Paris taught me the beauty of the nuances of the French language, and of this book. To Annegret Fauser, Tim Carter, Tamara Levitz, and Mark Katz I give my thanks for their continued support of my work and for the knowledge that they are never more than an email or phone call away. And to Friedemann Sallis, who has been a wonderful supporter during this entire process, I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation.

To my research team, who gave so much of their time and energies and in turn inspired me through their fresh insights and excitement, I am tremendously grateful. Many thanks to Leslie Allin, Krisandra Ivings, Jamie Jackson, Daniel Krueger, Erin Maher, Matthew Toth, and especially Melissa LaPorte. I also owe a debt of gratitude to my senior research thesis class, who responded to late versions of the manuscript: Michelle Bruno, Bowie Chiu, Cara Howard, Chantal Monette, Aldwyn Hogg, Krisandra Ivings, Matthew Janik, and Jennifer-Lynn Parnall.