Dukas
Americannoun
noun
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Long before Walt Disney and composer Paul Dukas, there were stories about magicians and their — usually — overreaching pupils.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2017
This emperor of the keyboard has long ventured through outrageously demanding thickets deep in the borderlands of the repertoire, capturing Godowsky and Busoni, Dukas and Alkan.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2015
Degas, Mallarmé, Rodin and Renoir mixed with Paul Dukas and Henri Duparc at the soirées that Ernest Chausson held at his elegant home on the Boulevard de Courcelles.
From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012
Einstein’s secretary, Helen Dukas, was our baby sitter.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2011
Dukas uses them later in divided violins, violas and cellos, having thus a triad of harmonics doubled in the octave.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
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