Word: frangaix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed by Pundit Boulanger's claims that Composer Frangaix was "a genius," but they found his concerto an agreeable, earsome knickknack...
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