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Composer in Interview: Benjamin Lees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Bret Johnson
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BL: The Concerto dates from 1966. It was written for Gary Graffman. We had worked together two years previously on the Fourth Piano Sonata, which I wrote on a Ford Foundation Grant. In those days the foundation was very active in getting performers and composers together and commissioning works. So we decided to do a Concerto. By chance a letter arrived from Eric Leinsdorf, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony, on another matter and when I mentioned in my reply that I was doing a Concerto for Gary, Leinsdorf said he wanted to do the première.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 214 , October 2000 , pp. 28 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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