{"id":2273,"date":"2017-10-23T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:41:16","slug":"pianist-ingrid-barancoski-reflects-year-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2017\/10\/23\/pianist-ingrid-barancoski-reflects-year-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pianist Ingrid Barancoski reflects on her year in Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2275 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789-700x1049.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Ingrid-Foto-Dario-Zalis-2789.jpeg 1353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em><span class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.unirio.br\/unirio\/cla\/ivl\/professores\/ingrid-barancoski\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Ingrid Barancoski<\/a>,\u00a0 from the Villa-Lobos Institute at UNIRIO (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) <\/span>reflects on her year in Southampton researching Nadia Boulanger and Almedia Prado: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In June 2014, I was reading the book entitled The musical work of Nadia Boulanger, and found it fascinating.\u00a0 Researching about the author, Prof. Jeanice Brooks, I came across the University of Southampton. At that point of my life, I was already been teaching at UNIRIO (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State) for 16 years, and it was time for a sabbatical. I had already chosen a research topic: the correspondence between Brazilian composer Almeida Prado (1943-2010), one of the most important names in Brazilian contemporary music, and the French teacher Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), an icon of twentieth-century music.\u00a0 I decided to e-mail Prof. Brooks to inquire about the possibility of a sabbatical at the University of Southampton, and she answered positively next day!\u00a0 To make a long story short, on November 2015 I was finally arriving in Southampton, supported by a research grant from the Brazilian government through CAPES (a department from our Ministry of Education).\u00a0 It was the beginning of a rich 10-month time period of my academic and also personal life.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the interesting conversations with Brooks about Boulanger, and the varied cultural activities on campus, several other opportunities were unique. \u00a0For example, I had a very warm audience at the recital of Almeida Prado\u2019s music I gave in the Turner Sims Concert Hall in February 2016. The work people clearly enjoyed the most was <em>Cores, constru\u00e7\u00f5es &amp; texturas: sonora arquitetura<\/em>:<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWOB8vh4vX0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>I was surprised because it was the longest work on the programme, but this made me realise the strength of a clear programme structure, in addition to the reception of a unique timbristic treatment of the piano.<\/p>\n<p>From Southampton it is easy to get to Paris, and I was able to spend plenty of time in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France with the archives of Nadia Boulanger. There I could find also letters from other composers and personalities who were close to Boulanger in the sixties and seventies, names such as Madeleine Lipatti, Idil Biret, Jean Fran\u00e7aix, and Igor Markevitch. Researching through documents of the archive I also assembled material for a new research project, devoted to other Latin-American composers who studied in France with Nadia Boulanger, coming from countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. \u00a0I am beginning to work on this subject right now, and it can reveal a whole new world of information.<\/p>\n<p>Another archive that I had the oportunity to visit was the one at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon, with Boulanger\u2019s teaching materials. And I was lucky to find there two original manuscripts by Almeida Prado \u2013 Symphony No.1 (1970), which was dedicated to Mlle Boulanger, and the cantata Liber genesis (1971). Both were composed while Prado was studying with her in Paris (he studied with Messiaen and Boulanger from 1969 through 1973).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Boulangers-class-Paris-1970.-Almeida-Prado-is-in-the-first-role-standing-the-fifth-person-from-right-to-left..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2274 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Boulangers-class-Paris-1970.-Almeida-Prado-is-in-the-first-role-standing-the-fifth-person-from-right-to-left.-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Boulanger's class , Paris, 1970. Almeida Prado is in the first role standing, the fifth person from right to left.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Boulangers-class-Paris-1970.-Almeida-Prado-is-in-the-first-role-standing-the-fifth-person-from-right-to-left.-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2017\/10\/Boulangers-class-Paris-1970.-Almeida-Prado-is-in-the-first-role-standing-the-fifth-person-from-right-to-left..jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulanger&#8217;s class , Paris, 1970. Almeida Prado is in the first role standing, the fifth person from right to left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in Brazil since September 2016, and after such a productive period, some publications from my research are already available, including this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anppom.com.br\/revista\/index.php\/opus\/article\/view\/439\" target=\"_blank\">overview<\/a>. Since one can find only very basic information in Portuguese about Nadia Boulanger, I decided to translate an article by Jeanice Brooks, the translation is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seer.unirio.br\/index.php\/revistadebates\/article\/view\/6119\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it looks like people in Brazil are beginning to discover who Nadia Boulanger was.<\/p>\n<p>My students here in Rio were very curious about my experiences in England, and have heard a lot of stories about Southampton.\u00a0 They will soon be learning music by British composers, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/music\/about\/staff\/don.page\">Prof. David Owen Norris<\/a>, who was very kind to introduce me to a large repertoire of British music. I have been reading and discovering fascinating piano pieces by composers such as Alan Clarke and George Dyson. It is great to have new music to teach and to perform!<\/p>\n<p>So good to be back home, with my family, students and colleagues again. But I hope I can go back to England and to Southampton in the near future, and visit my new friends, who are also very welcome to come to Rio anytime!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Music at Southampton!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ingrid Barancoski,\u00a0 from the Villa-Lobos Institute at UNIRIO (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) reflects on her year in Southampton researching Nadia Boulanger and Almedia Prado: In June 2014, I was reading the book entitled The musical work of Nadia Boulanger, and found it fascinating.\u00a0 Researching about the author, Prof. Jeanice Brooks, I came across the University &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6494,522685,161936,66718],"tags":[1078172,1078171,1078170,643622,613148,65],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-exchanges","category-international","category-staff","tag-almeida-prado","tag-boulanger","tag-ingrid-barancoski","tag-jeanice-brooks","tag-paris","tag-southampton","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-AF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}