Boston School (music) explained

The Boston School (also called the Stravinsky School) was a group of composers, most of them Jewish, from Boston, Massachusetts who were influenced by the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky:^[1]

• Arthur Berger^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Irving Fine^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lukas Foss^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Alexei Haieff^{[2] [4]}
• Harold Shapero^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Claudio Spies^[2]
• Leonard Bernstein^[3]
• Ingolf Dahl^[2]
• John Lessard^{[2] [4]}
• Louise Talma^[5]

Many of them studied with Nadia Boulanger.^[2] Irving Fine described the music of Stravinsky and his followers as "diatonic and tonal or quasi-modal", pandiatonic, and concerned with chord spacing and rhythm.^[2]

See also

• The Second New England School, also known as the "Boston Six"

Notes and References

1. [Richard Taruskin|Taruskin, Richard F.]
2. Ramey, Phillip (2005). Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time, p.49-50. .
3. Marta Robertson, Robin Armstrong, Robin Armstrong (2001). Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research, p.50. .
4. Berger, Arthur (2002). Reflections of an American Composer, p.246. . Cites Copland, Aaron (1949). "Influence, Problem, Tone", Stravinsky: In the Theatre, p.122.
5. Moore, Laura McDonald (2008). "Holy Sonnets: La Corona" of Louise Talma: Selected Elements of Texture, Technique, and Text, p.13. . Cites Berger, Arthur (June 1955). "Stravinsky and the Younger Composers", Score no 12, p.41.