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“[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.”

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Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a distinguished French composer and conductor, recognized as one of the most influential music educators of the 20th century. Her teaching methods and compositions have left a lasting impact on the musical world. more

“In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.”

Stills Understanding Music Solitude Findings Pity Clarity Enchantment Certitude New Hope

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“Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.”

Done Hours Music Pure Limits Sweetness Diminish Lit Sorrowful Pettiness

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“It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.”

Ifs Done Taken Failing Trouble Succeed Success And Failure

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