Word: passant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lover. He composed songs, piano pieces, ballets and operas (so far, not produced). For years he also held Box No. 1 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. When Ilgrenfritz died last year at 66, he left a bequest: if the Met would perform one of his two operas (Le Passant, Phèdre), the opera company would stand to get about $125,000 (TIME...
...published) dozens of songs and began to reach for the more ambitious forms of composition. In 1944 he submitted a pair of operas to the Met, one of them based on Racine's Phèdre, the other a one-acter from Coppée's Le Passant (The Passerby), whose plot might have been taken from his own wandering life...
Officials ransacked the Met library, dusted off the scores and found that Le Passant was not only workable music, but that since it had only one act and two characters, it could be produced for operatic peanuts. The chronically strapped Met is now talking seriously of producing the work season after next...