Creative Person; 52; Nadia Boulanger
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode Number
- 52
- Episode
- Nadia Boulanger
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-ht2g73835f
- NOLA Code
- CRPN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Nadia Boulanger, 79-year-old teacher of composition, conductor and lecturer, was born in Paris in 1887. Boulanger has notably contributed more to the development of twentieth-century composers than any other individual. Her major influence has been demonstrated, not as a composer herself, but as a seminal force through her teaching. Today, she carries on that teaching, as she has done since before World War I, and is also active as a visiting lecturer-teacher. In this program, filmed in Paris and London, cameras are present at classes conducted by Mlle. Boulanger, as she demonstrates her power as an instructor, always asking more from her pupils than they themselves feel empowered to give. Highlighting the half-hour are interviews with two of her former pupils, contemporary American composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, each of whom acknowledges his debt to Mlle. Boulanger. Several of Mlle. Boulangers current pupils also appear to describe their experiences in working with her. The Creative Person: Nadia Boulanger is a 1967 production of National Educational Television. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists --- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world --- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary technique are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-06-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Music
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Director: Sheers, Jay C.
Guest: Boulanger, Nadia
Interviewee: Copland, Aaron
Interviewee: Thomson, Virgil
Narrator: Sheers, Jay C.
Producer: Sheers, Jay C.
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Creative Person; 52; Nadia Boulanger,” 1967-06-04, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 20, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-ht2g73835f.
- MLA: “Creative Person; 52; Nadia Boulanger.” 1967-06-04. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 20, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-ht2g73835f>.
- APA: Creative Person; 52; Nadia Boulanger. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-ht2g73835f