Interviews with Benjamin Lees ...
Morning Concert: Benjamin Lees (January 24, 1985)
Charles Amirkhanian {of KPFA-FM, 94.1} talks to composer Benjamin Lees about his memories
of living in Paris including playing chess with Marcel Duchamp and
meeting other famous artists. We then hear the premier performance of
Lees’ Concerto for brass choir and orchestra. KPFA 94.1 FM 's website: http://www.kpfa.org/
Interview found at: http://www.archive.org/details/MC_1985_01_24
Benjamin Lees at KPFA (September 28, 1971)
Charles Amirkhanian interviews the visiting New York composer whose
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra has been recorded for RCA, and
whose larger works are finding their places in the repertories of major
orchestras the country over. Lees discusses his childhood in San
Francisco, and the fact that none of his works have been performed in
the Bay Area. Included in the program are the first movement of his
Piano Sonata No. 4 performed by Gary Graffman, Symphony No. 3 (1968)
performed by Sixten Ehrling and the Detroit Symphony, Visions of Poets
(a dramatic cantata on texts of Walt Whitman, 1962) performed by
soprano Adele Addison, tenor Albert da Costa, the Seattle Chorale and
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Milton Katims, and finally the final
movement of the Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra under Igor
Buketoff (RCA Victor LSC 3095). KPFA 94.1 FM's website: http://www.kpfa.org/
Interview found at: http://www.archive.org/details/AM_1971_09_28