Nadia Boulanger Mademoiselle

This documentary is the first film ever made by Bruno Monsaingeon It was shot in the 1960s and early 1970s in grainy black and white and only average sound when Boulanger was in her late 80s and still fearsomely in command of her abilities Monsaingeon recut the film in 1977 This film remains one of the most important documents concerning this fabled teacher She is seen at one of her fabled Wednesdays a composition lesson held weekly in her apartment for almost six decades and attended by anyone who would come In this particular session she talks illuminatingly with students about a small portion of Schumanns Davidsbündertanze