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TIL about the 'greatest music teacher who ever lived': Nadia Boulanger, the first woman to conduct many major US and European orchestras, and whose students include Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Quincy Jones, Philip Glass, Astor Piazzolla and many more. She taught mainly from her own home.

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