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Lees, Benjamin
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Brief introduction, photograph, biography, introduction to his music, works list, news, performances, new recordings, and RAM audio samples from Boosey and Hawkes.
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Benjamin Lees Lees is renowned for his works featuring concertante group and orchestra: his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1964) has been performed by more than 35 ensembles*Writes in an extended tonal idiom, with shifting metres...Biography tracing his musical development from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=5253
Personal page. Photograph, biography, awards, articles, discography, current and archived newsletters, projects and events, contact information, and works lists by genre and chronology.
http://home.dc.rr.com/bglees/
Partial works list, chronology of his life, photograph, and links from the Classical Composers Database.
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Benjamin Lees Classical Composers Database How would you want me to change this website? Go to the poll to let me know.[music][life][links][sheet music][recordings][books] Look for Classical MP3 files at eMusic.com Look for sheet music from Lees at SheetMusicPlus.com (Now: String...Listing with The Lied and Art Song Texts Page linked to his song cycles.
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=4804
Excerpts of interview and profile by Ron Bierman for Music and Voice Daily looks to view and better understand the musical muse. Includes photographs, album art, and links.
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Benjamin Lees interview Lees for several hours recently at his home in California. In articles over the next few weeks I'll report what he had to say about his training as a composer, how recent recordings of his...Picture and detailed biography following his academic and compositional career with Naxos discography..
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Composer Lees began piano lessons and his studies of harmony and theory began in his teens, along with his first efforts at composition. After military service (1942-5 Lees entered the University of Southern California in Los...