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| | Flash News -- Muriel Topaz |
 | | Our colleague Muriel Topaz, a giant in the fields of dance notation, scholarship, pedagogy, and journalism, died Monday evening in Branford, Connecticut at the Connecticut Hospice, of complications related to a liver ailment, the Dance Notation Bureau, which Topaz lead from 1978 to 1985 and inspired for many more years, confirmed Wednesday. |
 | | As a supervisor and later colleague, Muriel could be alternately tough and gentle. |
 | | The widow of composer Jacob Druckman, Muriel Topaz is survived by a daughter, Karen Jeanneret-Druckman of Rolle, Switzerland, a son, Daniel Druckman of Orangeburg, New York, and three grandchildren, Alessandra, Holly, and Hannah. |
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