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Louise Talma: Terre de France
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Another student of Nadia Boulanger, Louise Talma was an American composer who taught at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau as well as Hunter College. She was the first American female composer to have a full-scale opera performed in Europe. Terre de France uses traditional harmonies, but in the 1950s Talma started experimenting with serial techniques.
The score to Terre de France is available at Sheet Music Plus. We also mention her cycle Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird several times on the episode.
Recordings featured in this episode, performed by Toni Marie Palmertree, soprano, and Ellen Rissinger, pianist:
- 1. Mère, voici vos fils (mistranslated in the episode! "Mother, here are your sons")
- 3. Ballade
- 4. Ode
- 5. Adieux à la Meuse
Recorded at Morningstar Studios in Norristown, PA.
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