Word: doyen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chabrier: Seven Pieces for Piano (Ginette Doyen; Westminster). Fiery performances of music that is attractive enough for more frequent hearings than it gets. Composed in 1860 and 1891, some pieces have a fine Spanish flavor and a few French flourishes as well...
...composer who bides his time. Primarily famed as a symphonist (he has composed six symphonies), he waited until he was 51 to write his first ballet score (Old King Cole); at 69 he composed his first film score (49th Parallel). Last week, at 78, the famed old doyen of English composers finally made his first bow in Covent Garden with an opera...
Biggest recent gift came from Old Grad Alfred P. Sloan Jr., creator of General Motors and doyen of U.S. business-$5.250,000 for a School of Industrial Management, blueprinted by Sloan...