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— posted 2 June 2010 —

Benjamin Lees, who taught composition in the early 1960s at the Peabody Institute and later worked on the faculties of Juilliard and Manhattan schools of music, died of heart failure on 31 May.

Lees was born in Manchuria of Russian parents, but grew up in California, USA.

[Source: weblogs.baltimoresun.com]

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