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Miryam Yardumian was the third of 13 children of American composer Richard Yardumian, she grew up listening to the Philadelphia Orchestra and its legendary conductor, Eugene Ormandy. A children’s book she wrote at age 5, “The Happy Man and His Dumptruck,” was published in five languages as a Little Golden Book. She never pursued writing, and is currently retired from her administrative work for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

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