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| '''Elaine Lorillard''' (died ], ]) was an ] ] who helped start ]. <ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/03/elaine_lorillard_helped_start_newport_jazz_festival/ |title=Elaine Lorillard; helped start Newport Jazz Festival |work=The Boston Globe |author= |date=December 3, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/news/ny-lorillard295480519nov29,0,3551368.story |title=Elaine Lorillard, jazz festival pioneer, dies |publisher=Newsday |author=] |date= November 29, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-10}}</ref> | '''Elaine Lorillard''' (died ], ]) was an ] ] who helped start the ]. While visiting ]'s club in 1953, she told him jazz might liven up the "terribly boring" establishment. Her husband, tobacco heir ], who died in 1986, gave a $20,000 grant to a festival, the first of which in July 1954 attracted 11,000 fans.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/03/elaine_lorillard_helped_start_newport_jazz_festival/ |title=Elaine Lorillard; helped start Newport Jazz Festival |work=The Boston Globe |author= |date=December 3, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-10}}</ref>She died of an infection in the Heatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in ] where she had been treated for dementia at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/news/ny-lorillard295480519nov29,0,3551368.story |title=Elaine Lorillard, jazz festival pioneer, dies |publisher=Newsday |author=] |date= November 29, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-10}}</ref> | ||
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Elaine Lorillard (died November 26, 2007) was an American socialite who helped start the Newport Jazz Festival. While visiting George Wein's club in 1953, she told him jazz might liven up the "terribly boring" establishment. Her husband, tobacco heir Louis Lorillard, who died in 1986, gave a $20,000 grant to a festival, the first of which in July 1954 attracted 11,000 fans.She died of an infection in the Heatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Newport, Rhode Island where she had been treated for dementia at the age of 93.
References
- "Elaine Lorillard; helped start Newport Jazz Festival". The Boston Globe. December 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- Associated Press (November 29, 2007). "Elaine Lorillard, jazz festival pioneer, dies". Newsday. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
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