Enthusiastic

Lili Boulanger was a versatile child prodigy. At 19, she became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, France's highest composition award. Unfortunately, Boulanger was chronically ill and plagued by pain—she died at the early age of 24. "D'un soir triste" (One Sad Evening...) was one of her last compositions, a modern, fascinating sound sculpture, somber, dramatic, then mystically light. The composer was unable to write the work herself. She di...