Dukas
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Paul Dukas understood his brief when, in 1911, he wrote his score for the ballet La Péri.
From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012
Messiaen said it was the composer Paul Dukas, his teacher, who told him to “listen to the birds; they are great masters.”
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
Einstein’s secretary, Helen Dukas, was our baby sitter.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2011
Personally I admire Paul Dukas, though without any warrant whatever for placing him on the same plane with Claude Debussy, who, after all, has added a novel nuance to art.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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