Nadia Boulanger "Mademoiselle"

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a film by Bruno Monsaingeon

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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Nadia-Boulanger-Mademoiselle-N/dp/B000W2FI7Q

some of her quotes in the film:
1. As I accept God, I accept beauty, I accept emotion. I also accept masterpieces.
2. A great artist can be a dreadful, vice-driven person, vices pay for human weaknesses, but certainly not mediocre.
3. It seems to me the one quality lacking in many people is attention, which, essentially, is a form of character. With some people, there is such concentration that everything becomes important. While with others, everything passes and is forgotten. They repeat their actions from day to day. No evolution is possible, because whatever is produced immediately dissolves…This is the fundamental distinction between people, it makes some extraordinarily active, and others, what I call “sleepers”. Let the sleepers lie. There is no point in waking them up.
4. As performers, you have to play with honesty, not to express yourselves, but to give expression to the work; not to try to say my Beethoven Sonata, my Chopin Scherzo, but a Scherzo, not even by Chopin, a Scherzo that was given Chopin to write and that no longer needs Chopin to be a masterpiece. It no longer needs a performer, or a listener. It needs nothing, it is just floating in the air, ablaze with light. Then, you look at it or you don’t.
5. …I’ve rarely spent a day without thinking of Beethoven. In a fit of bad temper, you could be anti-Beethoven one day. Against! Yes, which is a way of loving, but never indifferent.

Many thanks to Ms. Ma Huiyuan（马慧元）. It's her collection of essays "Music: A garden of blessedness and sereneness"(随意翻的，书名是“宁静乐园” ）that kindles my interest of Boulanger.

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