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Daily Archives: September 19, 2012

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Composer Dominick Argento to Endow Professorship

News RoomBy Jessica KaufmanSeptember 19, 2012

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento, who will be celebrating his 85th birthday on October 27, has made a commitment through a charitable remainder trust which will endow a professorship at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music at $1.5 million. In honor of Argento, who received his Ph.D. in composition at Eastman in 1958,…

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