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        & Contemporary Media
      • Music Teaching & Learning
      • Musicology
      • Music Theory
      • Organ, Sacred Music
        & Historical Keyboards
      • Piano
      • Strings, Harp & Guitar
      • Voice, Opera & Vocal Coaching
      • Woodwinds, Brass & Percussion
    • Programs
      • Beal Institute
      • Early Music
      • EMuSE
      • Piano Accompanying
    • Ensembles
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Daily Archives: October 12, 2005

WARREN BENSON, EASTMAN PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF COMPOSITION, DIES AT AGE 81

News RoomBy Jessica KaufmanOctober 12, 2005

The Eastman School was saddened to learn of the recent death of Warren Benson, Professor Emeritus of Composition, at the age of 81. Born in 1924, and a professional performer by the age of 14, Warren Benson played timpani in the Detroit Symphony orchestra under Ormandy, Reiner, Goossens, Bernstein, and others while an undergraduate at…

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