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Many of Pierian's alumni have gone on to much greater achievements in the musical field. Perhaps the outstanding example is Leonard Bernstein 39, who has become a figure of world renown both as a composer and as a conductor. Bernstein led the New York City Symphony for several years, and was one of those considered to succeed Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony. For his composing abilities, Bernstein recently said of himself, "I am the logical man to write the Great American Opera...
Born. To Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 52, literary critic (the New Yorker) whose clinically detailed, bestselling Memoirs of Hecate County brought him national renown, and fourth wife Elena Thornton Wilson, 41 (voted one of the "Ten Most Glamorous Women of 1946"): their first child, a daughter; in Boston...
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Among the scorched was Sergei Prokofiev, whom many regard as the world's greatest living composer, much of whose music, including his Fifth Symphony, has been heard in the U.S. Two more of world renown were Dmitri Shostakovich (Seventh Symphony), and Aram Khachaturian (whose Saber Dance is a current U.S. jukebox sensation...
...speedy, 31-year-old battle cruiser Renown was always remembered as the ship which had carried the Prince of Wales (now the Duke of Windsor) on his tours around a world which the Prince then still charmed and the British Navy still awed. In 1941 she won Royal Navy renown by braving air attacks and boldly steaming close inshore to bombard Genoa...