• Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he...
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    for piano and orchestra by Lee Hoiby. A 1968 performance by Lawrence Foster and the London Symphony Orchestra, with Lee Hoiby on piano, was released in...
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  • Hoiby or Høiby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jasper Høiby (born 1977), Danish jazz musician Lee Hoiby (1926–2011), American composer...
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  • The Tempest is an opera in three acts by the American composer Lee Hoiby to a libretto by Mark Shulgasser adapted from Shakespeare's The Tempest. It was...
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    Enlightening the World). The latter part of the sonnet was also set by Lee Hoiby in his song "The Lady of the Harbor" written in 1985 as part of his song...
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    Mannes College of Music, New York. She also studied orchestration with Lee Hoiby and received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Franklin Pierce College...
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  • Tempest (Adès), a 2004 opera by Thomas Adès The Tempest (Hoiby), a 1986 opera by Lee Hoiby, after Shakespeare La Tempesta, a 1850 opera in Italian, by...
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    French mélodies, a group of American art songs by Barber, Ned Rorem, and Lee Hoiby, and spirituals. She liked to end her encores with "This Little Light...
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    remained in until 1955. His notable pupils included composers Olga Gorelli, Lee Hoiby, Stanley Hollingsworth, Leonard Kastle, George Rochberg, and Luigi Zaninelli...
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    Colin Nears for the BBC. Lynn Seymour also danced the role in New York. Lee Hoiby composed a two-act opera based on the play. Originally titled Natalia...
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