[Nadia Boulanger] - For a baked good, you might hit up the boulangerie, but for an exceptional music education? For that, you'd hit up Nadia Boulanger. Award-winning music director and composer, Heidi Joosten, joins to discuss the strengths and shortcomings of this complicated icon of the music industry...and also the strengths and shortcomings of Tar.

⁠Our guest, Heidi Joosten

Nadia & Lily Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger with Astor Piazzolla

⁠Tar trailer (video)

Maestro trailer (video)

Mr. Holland's Opus trailer (video)

More on Heidi

A reputable musical polymath, Heidi is a Jeff Award-winning music director, a composer, orchestrator, arranger, improviser, pianist, vocalist, and harpist. When she’s not in a rehearsal room, you can find her immersed in multiple composition projects and commissions, collaborating on new musical theatre works across the country, and scouring the globe for the best fried cheese curd with her best friend - her shih-chon, Ruby.

Follow Heidi @HeidiJoosten on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram. Or check out her website here.

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