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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.174552.26836@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Dec28.160411.7811@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:45:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.160411.7811@engage.pko.dec.com> sherman@ecadsr.enet.dec.com (My name is...) writes:
- >>But nobody should be teaching composition who doesn't complete at least
- >>one new symphony or 3 new sonatas and quartets or one scene of an opera
- >>fully orchestrated per year, consistently, imho.
- >>
- >
- >You know, this might be an invalid assertion. In looking over some info
- >about many of the great recent composers, the name of Nadia Boulanger comes
- >up quite often. Yet, my wife and I don't recall having heard *any* of her
- >compositions or that she composed much. Rather, we have consistently heard
- >(my wife heard from Copland himself in a private conversation with him) of
- >how *wonderful* an instructor she was.
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- Two miscelanies here: Anybody know (of) any of her works? and
- on the other hand, I've met a couple of folks still living who studied
- with her (no names today but the initials WB and JC come to mind) who said
- that she was a meticulous teacher of theoretical exercises, but that they
- left her and went elsewhere to master composition. I'm not entirely clear
- on the details, but then it seems to me that a composer like Copland could
- probably draw compositional nourishment from even a bad teacher... Same
- goes for Mr. Rorem. So where does that leave us? I'm going to teach you to
- go fishing. I've never been fishing, I don't even like fishing, I'm a
- vegetarian, but if you pay me enough I'll teach you fishing...naw, I don't
- think you could pay me enough. That'd take too much time away from composing.
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