principal player

Mr. Butzel’s support of even any development to help subsidize the park caused an irreparable breach with one of his former allies, Marcy Benstock, whose Clean Air Campaign was among the groups Mr. Butzel had represented against Westway and who, herself, was a principal player in the project’s defeat.

“Trump was the principal player in the conspiracy to delegitimize the election and remain in office regardless of the result,” Gershman said.

Lives Lived: The timpanist Elayne Jones joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972 as probably the first Black principal player in a major American orchestra.

Elayne Jones: The timpanist Elayne Jones, who was said to be the first Black principal player in a major American orchestra when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972, died on Saturday.

Elayne Jones, a timpanist who was said to be the first Black principal player in a major American orchestra when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972, and who mounted a legal battle over racial and sexual discrimination when she was denied tenure two years later, died on Saturday at her home in Walnut Creek, Calif. She was 94.