Dai-Keong Lee
Dai-Keong Lee (September 2, 1915 – December 1, 2005) was an American composer. His Symphony No. 2 was runner up for the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Dai-Keong Lee
- Born
- 2 September 1915
- Birthplace
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Occupation
- Composer
- Died
- 1 December 2005
- Place of death
- New York City
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Juilliard School · Princeton University · Columbia University
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Dai-Keong Lee (September 2, 1915 – December 1, 2005) was an American composer. His Symphony No. 2 was runner up for the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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• Born — 2 September 1915 • Birthplace — Honolulu, Hawaii • Occupation — Composer • Genre — Classical • Died — 1 December 2005 • Place of death — New York City
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Early life and education
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and studied with Roger Sessions at Princeton University, Frederick Jacobi at the Juilliard School of Music, Otto Luening at Columbia University, and Aaron Copland. He is of Chinese descent.
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Lee worked as a freelance composer in New York City. He composed six operas, the music for the Broadway comedy Teahouse of the August Moon, a ballet, a ballet suite, two symphonies, a Polynesian suite, a dance piece and a concerto grosso for strings, a string quartet, orchestral songs, choral works, and piano pieces. Joan Field premiered his violin concerto. In the summers of 1941 and 1942, the New York Philharmonic performed Lee's works "Prelude & Hula" and "Hawaiian Festival Overture" during their summer stadium concerts.
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1915
Dai-Keong Lee born at Honolulu.
2005
Dai-Keong Lee died.
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