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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: * Arthur Berger * Irving Fine * Lukas Foss * Alexei Haieff * Harold Shapero * Claudio Spies * Leonard Bernstein * Ingolf Dahl * John Lessard * Louise Talma 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.