In the late s and early s, El-Dabh was invited to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, where he created a number of electronic works, including Leiyla and the Poet Peters Corporation and his music has been recorded by the Folkways and Columbia labels. Copious recording sessions during the conference were overseen by Hindemith, who recorded the concerts for posterity before travelling to Turkey, contributing to the beginnings of the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. A devout Catholic, Schaeffer later went on to found a movement with an interest in the esoteric; the cultural-spiritual nationwide youth group La Jeune France, which operated between to In May , he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent and in an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory.
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