Word: mennin
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Kirchner, 64 noted that the former president of Julliard Peter Mennin, who died last month, had invited him to the coservatory for a permanent position after he retires from Harvard. But he added that he has made no such plans for the moment...
DIED. Peter Mennin, 60, American composer and educator who for the past 21 years was president of the Juilliard School in New York City, the world's only conservatory of all the performing arts; after a long illness; in New York City. By the time he was 30, Mennin had written nine symphonies, his favorite musical form, and won major prizes and commissions for his harmonically conservative, cohesive and sonorous works. Appointed to head Juilliard in 1962, he especially stressed performance training: under his aegis, Juilliard students staged nearly 400 music, dance, opera and theater events every season...