70-628: William Sloane Coffin Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ . In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA officer, and later chaplain of Yale University , where the influence of H. Richard Niebuhr 's social philosophy led him to become
140-548: A SANE Nuclear Policy , an organization he would later lead. Approached by Sargent Shriver in 1961 to run the first training programs for the Peace Corps , Coffin took up the task and took a temporary leave from Yale, working to develop a rigorous training program modeled on Outward Bound and supervising the building of a training camp in Puerto Rico . He used his pulpit as a platform for like-minded crusaders, hosting
210-564: A Sin to Build a Nuclear Weapon ", and during the Iran hostage crisis , "And Pray for the Iranians, Too". Coffin openly and vocally supported gay rights when many liberals still were uncomfortable with homosexuality. Some of the congregation's socially conservative members openly disagreed with his position on sexuality. Coffin started a strong nuclear disarmament program at Riverside, and hired Cora Weiss (a secular Jew he had worked with during
280-491: A Wednesday afternoon group class in analysis and sightsinging. She continued these almost to her death. This class was followed by her famous "at homes", salons at which students could mingle with professional musicians and Boulanger's other friends from the arts, such as Igor Stravinsky , Paul Valéry , Fauré, and others. After leaving the Conservatoire in 1904 and before her sister's untimely death in 1918, Boulanger
350-467: A car accident in 1983 inspired one of Coffin's most requested sermons. They also shared two other children, community developer Amy Coffin and folk musician David Coffin . Coffin was given only six months to live in early 2004 due to a weakened heart. He and his wife lived in the small town of Strafford, Vermont , a few houses away from his brother Ned, until his death nearly two years later at age 81. [1] The Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan
420-413: A coalition for people of faith committed to working for a world free of nuclear weapons. Coffin was married three times. His marriages to Eva Rubinstein and Harriet Gibney ended in divorce. His third wife, Virginia Randolph Wilson ("Randy"), survived him. Rubinstein, his first wife and the mother of his children, was a daughter of pianist Arthur Rubinstein . The loss of their son Alexander, at age 24, in
490-583: A home tutor (or governess ) in 1873. According to Ernest, he and Raissa met in Russia in 1873, and she followed him back to Paris. She joined his voice class at the Conservatoire in 1876, and they were married in Russia in 1877. Ernest and Raissa had a daughter, Ernestine Mina Juliette, who died as an infant before Nadia was born on her father's 72nd birthday. Through her early years, although both parents were very active musically, Nadia would get upset by hearing music and hide until it stopped. In 1892, when Nadia
560-536: A leader in the civil rights movement and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones . He went on to serve as senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City and President of SANE/Freeze , the nation's largest peace and social justice group, and prominently opposed United States military interventions in conflicts, from the Vietnam War to
630-502: A lifelong friendship with him. In April 1912, Nadia Boulanger made her debut as a conductor, leading the Société des Matinées Musicales orchestra. They performed her 1908 cantata La Sirène , two of her songs, and Pugno's Concertstück for piano and orchestra. The composer played as soloist. Lili Boulanger won the Prix de Rome composition prize in 1913, the first woman to do so. With
700-604: A national referendum in Vietnam about unification. He was in early opposition to the Vietnam War and became famous for his anti-war activities and his civil rights activism. Along with others, he was a founder in the early 1960s of the Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, organized to resist President Lyndon Johnson 's escalation of the war. Coffin had a prominent role in the Freedom Rides challenging segregation and
770-514: A new, wider audience. Not all reviewers approved her use of modern instruments. When Hindemith published his The Craft of Musical Composition , Boulanger asked him for permission to translate the text into French, and to add her own comments. Hindemith never responded to her offer. After he fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, they did not discuss the matter further. Late in 1937, Boulanger returned to Britain to broadcast for
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#1732780229371840-719: A position of professor of accompagnement au piano at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1953, she was appointed overall director of the Fontainebleau School. She also continued her touring to other countries. As a long-standing friend of the family, and as official chapel-master to the Prince of Monaco , Boulanger was asked to organise the music for the wedding of Prince Rainier of Monaco and the American actress Grace Kelly in 1956. In 1958, she returned to
910-592: A series of songs to words by Camille Mauclair . In 1921, she performed at two concerts in support of women's rights , both of which featured music by Lili. However later in life she claimed never to have been involved with feminism , and that women should not have the right to vote as they "lacked the necessary political sophistication." In the summer of 1921 the French Music School for Americans opened in Fontainebleau, with Boulanger listed on
980-418: A song cycle, Les Heures claires , which was well-received enough to encourage them to continue working together. Still hoping for a Grand Prix de Rome, Boulanger entered the 1909 competition but failed to win a place in the final round. Later that year, her sister Lili, then sixteen, announced to the family her intention to become a composer and win the Prix de Rome herself. In 1910, Annette Dieudonné became
1050-478: A student of Boulanger's, continuing with her for the next fourteen years. When her studies ended, she began teaching Boulanger's students the rudiments of music and solfège. She was Boulanger's close friend and assistant for the rest of her life. Boulanger attended the premiere of Diaghilev 's ballet The Firebird in Paris, with music by Stravinsky . She immediately recognised the young composer's genius and began
1120-484: Is less terrible for Mother and that I try to resemble you. ' " In 1919, Boulanger performed in more than twenty concerts, often programming her own music and that of her sister. Since the Conservatoire Femina-Musica had closed during the war, Alfred Cortot and Auguste Mangeot founded a new music school in Paris, which opened later that year as the École normale de musique de Paris . Boulanger
1190-615: Is named (in part) for William Sloane Coffin. Liberal Christianity Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.237 via cp1104 cp1104, Varnish XID 203059594 Upstream caches: cp1104 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:50:29 GMT Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger ( French: [ʒyljɛt nadja bulɑ̃ʒe] ; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979)
1260-490: The BBC Symphony , Boston Symphony , Hallé , and Philadelphia orchestras. She conducted several world premieres, including works by Copland and Stravinsky . Nadia Boulanger was born in Paris on 16 September 1887, to French composer and pianist Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900) and his wife Raissa Myshetskaya (1856–1935), a Russian princess, who descended from St. Mikhail Tchernigovsky . Ernest Boulanger had studied at
1330-878: The Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes , in which she and Dinu Lipatti were the duo pianists with a vocal ensemble, and (again with Lipatti) a selection of the Brahms Waltzes, Op. 39 for piano four hands . During Boulanger's tour of America the following year, she became the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall , the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Washington National Symphony Orchestra . She gave 102 lectures in 118 days across
1400-457: The Iraq War . He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights . William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born into the wealthy elite of New York City . His paternal great-grandfather William Sloane was a Scottish immigrant and co-owner of the very successful W. & J. Sloane Company. His uncle was Henry Sloane Coffin , president of Union Theological Seminary and one of the most famous ministers in
1470-704: The Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give classes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint and advanced composition. In 1942, she also began teaching at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore . Her classes included music history, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration and composition. Leaving America at the end of 1945, she returned to France in January 1946. There she accepted
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#17327802293711540-506: The coup that removed President Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954. After leaving the CIA, Coffin enrolled at Yale Divinity School and earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1956, the same year he was ordained a Presbyterian minister . This same year he married Eva Rubinstein , the daughter of pianist Arthur Rubinstein , and became chaplain at Williams College . Soon, he accepted
1610-448: The 1904 competitions, she came first in three categories: organ, accompagnement au piano and fugue (composition). At her accompagnement exam, Boulanger met Raoul Pugno , a renowned French pianist, organist and composer, who subsequently took an interest in her career. In the autumn of 1904, Nadia began to teach from the family apartment, at 36 rue Ballu. In addition to the private lessons she held there, Boulanger started holding
1680-575: The 20th century, including Nadia Boulanger . The Coffins moved to Geneva, Switzerland , when World War II came to France in 1940, and then back to the United States, where he enrolled in Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts . Having graduated from high school in 1942, William enrolled at Yale College and studied in the School of Music . While continuing his pursuit of the piano, he
1750-760: The BBC and hold her popular lecture-recitals. In November, she became the first woman to conduct a complete concert of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, which included Fauré's Requiem and Monteverdi's Amor (Lamento della ninfa) . Describing her concerts, Mangeot wrote, She never uses a dynamic level louder than mezzo-forte and she takes pleasure in veiled, murmuring sonorities, from which she nevertheless obtains great power of expression. She arranges her dynamic levels so as never to have need of fortissimo ... In 1938, Boulanger returned to
1820-409: The BBC. Her eyesight and hearing began to fade toward the end of her life. On 13 August 1977, in advance of her 90th birthday, she was given a surprise birthday celebration at Fontainebleau's English Garden. The school's chef had prepared a large cake, on which was inscribed: "1887–Happy Birthday to you, Nadia Boulanger–Fontainebleau, 1977". When the cake was served, 90 small white candles floating on
1890-849: The French and Russian armies in connection with the Army's military intelligence unit, and where he heard first-hand stories of life in Stalin's USSR. Records indicate he was part of the Ritchie Boys and trained extensively at Camp Ritchie, in Maryland. After the war, Coffin returned to Yale, where he became president of the Yale Glee Club . Coffin had been a friend of George H. W. Bush since his youth, as they both attended Phillips Academy (1942). In Coffin's senior year, Bush brought Coffin into
1960-449: The Paris Conservatoire and, in 1835 at the age of 20, won the coveted Prix de Rome for composition. He wrote comic operas and incidental music for plays, but was most widely known for his choral music . He achieved distinction as a director of choral groups, teacher of voice, and a member of choral competition juries. After years of rejection, in 1872 he was appointed to the Paris Conservatoire as professor of singing. Raissa qualified as
2030-603: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu , and Nelson Mandela , among others. Fellow Yale graduate Garry Trudeau has immortalized Coffin (combined with Coffin's protege Rev. Scotty McLennan ) as "the Rev. Scot Sloan " in the comic strip Doonesbury . During the Vietnam War years, Coffin and his friend Howard Zinn often spoke from the same anti-war platform. An inspiring speaker, Coffin
2100-797: The U.S. and England, working with music academies including the Juilliard School , the Yehudi Menuhin School , the Longy School , the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music , but her principal base for most of her life was her family's flat in Paris, where she taught for most of the seven decades from the start of her career until her death at the age of 92. Boulanger was the first woman to conduct many major orchestras in America and Europe, including
2170-575: The US for a longer tour. She had arranged to give a series of lectures at Radcliffe , Harvard , Wellesley and the Longy School of Music , and to broadcast for NBC . During this tour, she became the first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra . In her three months there, she gave over a hundred lecture-recitals, recitals and concerts These included the world premiere of Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto . At that time she
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2240-599: The US for a six-week tour. She combined broadcasting, lecturing, and making four television films. Also in 1958, she was inducted as an Honorary Member into Sigma Alpha Iota , the international women's music fraternity, by the Gamma Delta chapter at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. In 1962, she toured Turkey, where she conducted concerts with her young protégée İdil Biret . Later that year, she
2310-595: The US. As the Second World War loomed, Boulanger helped her students leave France. She made plans to do so herself. Stravinsky joined her at Gargenville, where they awaited news of the German attack against France. Waiting to leave France till the last moment before the invasion and occupation, Boulanger arrived in New York via Madrid and Lisbon on 6 November 1940. After her arrival, Boulanger traveled to
2380-501: The United States and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were many important composers, soloists, arrangers, and conductors, including Grażyna Bacewicz , Daniel Barenboim , Lennox Berkeley , İdil Biret , Elliott Carter , Aaron Copland , David Diamond , John Eliot Gardiner , Philip Glass , Roy Harris , Quincy Jones , Dinu Lipatti , Igor Markevitch , Julia Perry , Astor Piazzolla , Laurence Rosenthal , Virgil Thomson , and George Walker . Boulanger taught in
2450-773: The United States. In 1936, Boulanger substituted for Alfred Cortot in some of his piano masterclasses, coaching the students in Mozart's keyboard works. Later in the year, she traveled to London to broadcast her lecture-recitals for the BBC , as well as to conduct works including Schütz, Fauré and Lennox Berkeley . Noted as the first woman to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra , she received acclaim for her performances. Boulanger's long-held passion for Monteverdi culminated in her recording six discs of madrigals for HMV in 1937, which brought his music to
2520-660: The United States. His father, William Sloane Coffin, Sr. was an executive in the family business and president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Famed record producer and civil rights activist John Hammond was a cousin, and singer and musician John P. Hammond his nephew. His mother, Catherine Butterfield, had grown up in the Midwest, and as a young woman spent time in France during World War I providing relief to soldiers, and met her future husband there, where he
2590-605: The Vietnam War and had traveled with to North Vietnam in 1972 to accompany three released U.S. prisoners of war ), an action which was uncomfortable for some parishioners. Broadening his reach to an international audience, he met with numerous world leaders and traveled abroad. His visits included going to Iran to perform Christmas services for hostages being held in the U.S. embassy during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and to Nicaragua to protest U.S. military intervention there. In 1987, he resigned from Riverside Church to pursue disarmament activism full-time, saying then that there
2660-655: The advent of war in Europe in 1914, public programs were reduced, and Boulanger had to put her performing and conducting on hold. She continued to teach privately and to assist Dallier at the Conservatoire. Nadia was drawn into Lili's expanding war work, and by the end of the year, the sisters had organised a sizable charity, the Comité Franco-Américain du Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation. It supplied items such as food, clothing, money, and letters from home to soldiers who had been musicians before
2730-644: The exclusive Skull and Bones secret society at the university. Upon graduating in 1949, Coffin entered the Union Theological Seminary , where he remained for a year, until the outbreak of the Korean War reignited his interest in fighting against communism. He joined the CIA as a case officer in 1950 (his brother-in-law Franklin Lindsay had been head of the Office of Policy Coordination,
2800-535: The family to Carmel, California , to make life more affordable, but was able to do this only with financial support from her brother-in-law Henry. After years spent in the most exclusive private schools in Manhattan , the three Coffin children were educated in Carmel's public schools, where William had his first sense that there was injustice—sometimes very great—in the world. A talented musician, he became devoted to
2870-514: The firm. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, William allowed tenants to stay whether or not they could pay the rent, quickly draining his own funds, and at a time when the family's substantial W. & J. Sloane stock was not paying dividends. William Sloane Coffin, Sr. died at home on his oldest son Edmund's eleventh birthday in 1933 from a heart attack he suffered returning from work. After this, his wife Catherine decided to move
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2940-437: The first round. In 1907 she progressed to the final round but again did not win. In late 1907 she was appointed to teach elementary piano and accompagnement au piano at the newly created Conservatoire Femina-Musica. She was also appointed as assistant to Henri Dallier , the professor of harmony at the Conservatoire. In the 1908 Prix de Rome competition, Boulanger caused a stir by submitting an instrumental fugue rather than
3010-541: The oppression of black people. As chaplain at Yale in the early 1960s, Coffin organized busloads of Freedom Riders to challenge segregation laws in the South. Through his efforts, hundreds of students at Yale University and elsewhere were recruited into civil rights and anti-war activity. He was jailed many times, but his first conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court. In 1962, he joined SANE: The Committee for
3080-486: The piano and planned a career as a concert pianist . At the urging of his uncle Henry (who was still contributing to the family's finances), his mother enrolled him in Deerfield Academy in 1938. The following year (when Edmund left for Yale University ), William moved with his mother to Paris at the age of 15 to receive personal instruction in the piano and was taught by some of the best music teachers of
3150-519: The political warfare arm of the CIA) spending three years in West Germany recruiting anti-Soviet Russian refugees and training them how to undermine Stalin's regime. Coffin grew increasingly disillusioned with the role of the CIA and the United States due to events including the CIA's involvement in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in 1953, followed by the CIA's orchestration of
3220-554: The position as Chaplain of Yale University, where he remained from 1958 until 1975. Gifted with a rich bass-baritone voice, he was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus during the late 1950s and 1960s. With his CIA background, he was dismayed when he learned in 1964 of the history of French and American involvement in South Vietnam . He felt the United States should have honored the French agreement to hold
3290-472: The programme as a professor of harmony. Her close friend Isidor Philipp headed the piano departments of both the Paris Conservatory and the new Fontainebleau School and was an important draw for American students. She inaugurated the custom, which would continue for the rest of her life, of inviting the best students to her summer residence at Gargenville one weekend for lunch and dinner. Among
3360-403: The publisher Schirmer to enquire if they would be interested in publishing her methods of teaching music to children. When nothing came of it, she abandoned trying to write about her ideas. Gershwin visited Boulanger in 1927, asking for lessons in composition. They spoke for half an hour after which Boulanger announced, "I can teach you nothing." Taking this as a compliment, Gershwin repeated
3430-540: The required vocal fugue. The subject was taken up by the national and international newspapers, and was resolved only when the French Minister of Public Information decreed that Boulanger's work be judged on its musical merit alone. She won the Second Grand Prix for her cantata, La Sirène . In 1908, as well as performing piano duets in public concerts, Boulanger and Pugno collaborated on composing
3500-598: The rest of her life. In 1900 her father Ernest died, and money became a problem for the family. Raissa had an extravagant lifestyle, and the royalties she received from performances of Ernest's music were insufficient to live on permanently. Nadia continued to work hard at the Conservatoire to become a teacher and be able to contribute to her family's support. In 1903, Nadia won the Conservatoire's first prize in harmony ; she continued to study for years, although she had begun to earn money through organ and piano performances. She studied composition with Gabriel Fauré and, in
3570-605: The riots showed only that they did not "take music seriously enough". By the end of the year, she was conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with a programme of Bach, Monteverdi and Schütz . Her mother Raissa died in March 1935, after a long decline. This freed Boulanger from some of her ties to Paris, which had prevented her from taking up teaching opportunities in
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3710-557: The story many times. The Great Depression increased social tensions in France. Days after the Stavisky riots in February 1934, and in the midst of a general strike, Boulanger resumed conducting. She made her Paris debut with the orchestra of the École normale in a programme of Mozart , Bach , and Jean Françaix . Boulanger's private classes continued; Elliott Carter recalled that students who did not dare to cross Paris through
3780-441: The students attending the first year at Fontainebleau was Aaron Copland . Boulanger's unrelenting schedule of teaching, performing, composing, and writing letters started to take its toll on her health; she had frequent migraines and toothaches. She stopped writing as a critic for Le Monde musical as she could not attend the requisite concerts. To maintain her and her mother's living standards, she concentrated on teaching which
3850-546: The verdict. Coffin remained chaplain of Yale until December 1975. In 1977, he became senior minister at Riverside Church —an interdenominational congregation affiliated with both the United Church of Christ and American Baptist Churches —and one of the most prominent congregations in New York City. Coffin was a controversial, yet inspirational leader at Riverside, with sermon titles like " Abortion ", " AIDS ", "Homosexuality", and "Iran". His other sermons included "It's
3920-706: The war. Weakened by her work during the war, Lili began to suffer ill health. She died in March 1918. Nadia struggled with the death of her sister and according to Jeanice Brooks, "[t]he dichotomy between private grief and public strength was strongly characteristic of Boulanger's frame of mind in the immediate aftermath of World War I. Guilt at surviving her talented sibling seems to have led to determination to deserve Lili's death, which Nadia framed as redemptive sacrifice, by throwing herself into work and domestic responsibility: as Nadia wrote in her datebook in January 1919, 'I place this new year before you, my little beloved Lili–may it see me fulfill my duty towards you–so that it
3990-545: Was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Conservatoire de Paris but, believing that she had no particular talent as a composer, she gave up writing music and became a teacher. In that capacity, she influenced generations of young composers, especially those from
4060-534: Was a keen composer, encouraged by both Pugno and Fauré. Caroline Potter, writing in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , says of Boulanger's music: "Her musical language is often highly chromatic (though always tonally based), and Debussy 's influence is apparent." Her goal was to win the First Grand Prix de Rome as her father had done, and she worked tirelessly towards it in addition to her increasing teaching and performing commitments. She first submitted work for judging in 1906, but failed to make it past
4130-467: Was also engaged in charitable activities. Their three children grew up fluent in French by being taught by their nanny , and attended private schools in New York. William Sr.'s father, Edmund Coffin, was a prominent lawyer , real estate developer , and reformer who owned a property investment and management firm that renovated and rented low-income housing in New York. Upon Edmund's death in 1928, it went to his sons William and Henry, with William managing
4200-419: Was also excited by the prospect of fighting to stop fascism and became very focused on joining the war effort. He applied to work as a spy with the Office of Strategic Services in 1943, but was turned down for not having sufficiently "Gallic features" to be effective. He then left school, enlisted in the Army , and was quickly tapped to become an officer. After training, he was assigned to work as liaison to
4270-458: Was born in 1893, when Nadia was six. When Ernest brought Nadia home from their friends' house, before she was allowed to see her mother or Lili, he made her promise solemnly to be responsible for the new baby's welfare. He urged her to take part in her sister's care. From the age of seven, Nadia studied in preparation for her Conservatoire entrance exams, sitting in on their classes and having private lessons with its teachers. Lili often stayed in
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#17327802293714340-453: Was five, Raissa became pregnant again. During the pregnancy, Nadia's response to music changed drastically. "One day I heard a fire bell. Instead of crying out and hiding, I rushed to the piano and tried to reproduce the sounds. My parents were amazed." After this, Boulanger paid great attention to the singing lessons her father gave, and began to study the rudiments of music. Her sister, named Marie-Juliette Olga but known as Lili Boulanger ,
4410-722: Was her most lucrative source of income. Fauré believed she was mistaken to stop composing, but she told him, "If there is one thing of which I am certain, it is that I wrote useless music." In 1924, Walter Damrosch , Arthur Judson and the New York Symphony Society arranged for Boulanger to tour the USA. She set sail on the Cunard flagship RMS Aquitania on Christmas Eve. The ship arrived on New Year's Eve in New York after an extremely rough crossing. During this tour, she performed solo organ works, pieces by Lili, and premiered Copland's new Symphony for Organ and Orchestra , which he had written for her. She returned to France on 28 February 1925. Later that year, Boulanger approached
4480-478: Was invited by Cortot to join the school, where she taught classes in harmony , counterpoint , musical analysis , organ and composition. Mangeot also asked Boulanger to contribute articles of music criticism to his paper Le Monde Musical , and she occasionally provided articles for this and other newspapers for the rest of her life, though she never felt at ease setting her opinions down for posterity in this way. In 1920, Boulanger began to compose again, writing
4550-416: Was invited to the White House of the United States by President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline , and in 1966, she was invited to Moscow to jury for the International Tchaikovsky Competition , chaired by Emil Gilels . While in England, she taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School . She also gave lectures at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music , all of which were broadcast by
4620-470: Was known for optimism and humor: "Remember, young people, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat." By 1967, Coffin concentrated increasingly on preaching civil disobedience and supported the young men who turned in their draft cards. He was, however, uncomfortable with draft-card burning , worried that it looked "unnecessarily hostile". Coffin was one of several persons who signed an open letter entitled "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority", which
4690-473: Was licked." And so on January 5, 1968, Coffin, Benjamin Spock (the pediatrician and baby book author who was also a Phillips Academy alumnus), Marcus Raskin , and Mitchell Goodman (all signers of "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" and members of the anti-war collective RESIST ) were indicted by a Federal grand jury for "conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet draft resistance". All but Raskin were convicted that June, but in 1970 an appeals court overturned
4760-525: Was no issue more important for a man of faith. He became president of SANE/FREEZE , the largest peace and justice organization in the United States. He retired with the title president emeritus in the early 1990s, and then taught and lectured across the United States and overseas. Coffin also wrote several books. He cautioned that we are all living in "the shadow of Doomsday", and urged that people turn away from isolationism and become more globally aware. Shortly before his death, Coffin founded Faithful Security ,
4830-467: Was printed in several newspapers in October 1967. In that same month, he also raised the possibility of declaring Battell Chapel at Yale a sanctuary for resisters, or possibly as the site of a large demonstration of civil disobedience. School administration barred the use of the church as a sanctuary. Coffin later wrote, "I accused them of behaving more like 'true Blues than true Christians'. They squirmed but weren't about to change their minds.... I realized I
4900-428: Was seen by American sculptor Katharine Lane Weems who recorded in her diary, "Her voice is surprisingly deep. She is quite slim with an excellent figure and fine features, Her skin is delicate, her hair graying slightly, she wears pince-nez and gesticulates as she becomes excited talking about music." HMV issued two additional Boulanger records in 1938: the Piano Concerto in D by Jean Françaix, which she conducted; and
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