Article: MARRIED TO MUSIC STUDENTS OF NADIA BOULANGER GATHER IN BOULDER TO CELEBRATE HER LEGACY.(Spotlight)

Byline: Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News

There is no Music Teachers' Hall of Fame - but if there were, Nadia Boulanger would be entitled to an entire wing.

Even a partial list of her students provides all the necessary credentials for the legendary French pedagogue, who died in 1979 at age 92. Among them: Aaron Copland, Yehudi Menuhin, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones.

"She was very much a guru," said San Francisco-based composer David Conte. "After studying with her, you feel you had to give everything to your art - she inspired us to work very hard."

Conte is among a small army of ...

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