A master-class with Nadia Boulanger.

"I cannot give talent. I cannot take away talent. I can give them more and better means to express themselves, that is all."
Nearly every Wednesday afternoon for the past sixty-one years this great French musician, whose eightieth birthday it is today, has held music appreciation classes in her apartment in Paris. Started when she was only eighteen, her weekly class has become the most celebrated of its kind in the world.
With Patrice Fontanarosa (violin).
Commentary by Kenneth van Barthold.

(Shown in a shortened version on September 16)