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| | classical music - andante - remembering dorothy delay |
 | | Miss DeLay, as she preferred to be called, was a week short of her 85th birthday. |
 | | A generous presence in every sense, Miss DeLay was a violin teacher on much the same scale that the Grand Canyon is a river valley, or Niagara Falls a cascade. |
 | | From her declaration of independence to the end of her life, Miss DeLay coached, counseled, mentored, judged, assessed and reassessed, meanwhile negotiating with managers, patrons, dressmakers and instrument dealers, with the sovereignty of a democratic empress who had never heard of union rules. |
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