The Boston School (also called the Stravinsky School) was a group of composers, most of them Jewish, from Boston, Massachusetts who were influenced by the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky:Taruskin, Richard F. (1997). Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, p.457. .
Arthur BergerRamey, Phillip (2005). Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time, p.49-50. .Marta Robertson, Robin Armstrong, Robin Armstrong (2001). Aaron Copland: A Guide to Research, p.50. .Berger, Arthur (2002). Reflections of an American Composer, p.246. . Cites Copland, Aaron (1949). "Influence, Problem, Tone", Stravinsky: In the Theatre, p.122. Irving Fine Lukas Foss Alexei Haieff Harold Shapero Claudio Spies Leonard Bernstein Ingolf Dahl John Lessard Louise TalmaMoore, Laura McDonald (2008). "Holy Sonnets: La Corona" of Louise Talma: Selected Elements of Texture, Technique, and Text, p.13. . Cites Berger, Arthur (June 1955). "Stravinsky and the Younger Composers", Score no 12, p.41.
Many of them studied with Nadia Boulanger. Irving Fine described the music of Stravinsky and his followers as "diatonic and tonal or quasi-modal", pandiatonic, and concerned with chord spacing and rhythm.
See also The Second New England School, also known as the "Boston Six"
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