Benjamin Lees

Person · Open Library

Born

1924

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1924-01-08

Active to

2010-05-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

246

Total plays

2,125

Benjamin Lees (born January 8, 1924) is a contemporary U.S. composer of classical music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and currently residing in Palm Springs, California. Lees rejects atonalism and Americana in favor of classical structures. He began piano lessons at 5 with K. I. Rodetskyand[1] and started composing as a teenager. In 1954, the NBC Orchestra performed his Profiles for Orchestra on national TV. Notable work includes Symphony No. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,835x

2. A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF TOTAL LIPIDES FROM ANIMAL TISSUES

   · 1957 · cited 53,667x

3. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,837x

4. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,876x

5. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 31,405x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Benjamin

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Harbin

Place of death

Glen Cove

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

USC Thornton School of Music

Employer

Manhattan School of Music

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Student of

George Antheil

Genre

symphony

Official website

www.benjaminlees.com

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