Win a free CD-R of my music by providing the correct answer to the following.

Name the individual who said: "The Piano Ain't Got No Wrong Notes."

Send your answer to: thomas.o.lee@comcast.net

 
  Photo by Lee Pellegrini.

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Profile

Born: September 5, 1945, Beijing, China
Home: 9 Remington Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Telephone: 617 661 6610
E-mail: thomas.o.lee@comcast.net

Education: University of Pittsburgh, B.A. 1972
New England Conservatory of Music, M.M. 1974 & 1976
Harvard University, Ph.D. 1981
Career: Faculty member of the Music Department at Boston College since 1990

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Listen to TOL music, on-site.

"Forró" with conductor Gunther Schuller and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

"Morango ... almost a tango" with the Kronos Quartet

"Eight Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio - La Ruota della Fortuna" with marimba duo Nancy Zeltsman and Janice Potter

Claude McKay's poem "Truth" with choral director John Finney and the Heritage Chorale

"Flauta Carioca, 1st movement" with flute soloist Bart Feller and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

"Twenty-nine Fireflies, Book III ... 0347 - like a music box" with pianist Robert Levin

TOL arr. of George Gershwin's "He Loves and She Loves" for two pianos with Randall Hodgkinson and Lesley Amper

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Listen to TOL music, off-site.

Listen to fifty-plus TOL works - orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal music - at the American Music Center's Online Library site

Choose from a complete list of TOL music on twenty-three CD-Rs and a chamber opera on DVD.

Join The Inter Mission - a dance & ballet website - and listen to TOL music.

Join Classical Lounge and listen to more TOL music.

One hundred minutes of TOL music can also found on his facebook page @ My Band.

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See webcast of Pilobolus and TOL music: A performance merging dance and biology

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List of works, performances, reviews, links, Wiki-bio, etc.


Biography, list of works & reviews: an out-dated version at Boston College

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Publications and Recordings

Departed Feathers Music - chamber, vocal and choral music
Theodore Presser Company/Merion Music Inc. - recent orchestral music
G. Schirmer Inc./Associated Music Publishers - early works originally published by Margun Music Inc.

Recordings on Nonesuch , GM1 , GM2 , GM3 , Arsis Audio, Northeastern, BMG Catalyst, MCA Classics and Koch International Classics.

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Click here for Koch International Classics CD with the Hawthorne String Quartet!!!

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Awards, Fellowships & Grants
  National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowship, 1983 & 1987
 Renée B. Fisher Foundation Composer Award, 2002

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Commissions

Boston Landmarks Orchestra - Mambo!!! (2003)
Boston Landmarks Orchestra - Pluto ... Lord of the Underworld (2005)
Boston Landmarks Orchestra - The Emerald Necklace (2009)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project for Ina Zdorovetchi, harp - ... bisbigliando ... (2008-09)
Brockton Symphony Orchestra for Jonathan Cohler - Clarinet Concert ... Sounds of the Islands (2003)
Brett Shuster, trombonist - Chorões Brasileiros, opus 120 (2007)
Brockton Symphony Orchestra - Concerto for Orchestra, opus 111 (2004)
Carl and Claudia Shuster for MusicWorks in the Berkshires - String Quartet No. 10 ... The Berkshires (2006)
Carson P. Cooman, organist - Fantasia for solo organ (2001)
Charles W. Engelhard Foundation, Boston College Research Incentive Grant, Jesuit Institute and Jesuit Community of Boston College for the University Chorale of Boston College - Mass for the Holy Year 2000
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston for Andrés Díaz - Eurydice ... A Tone Poem for Cello and Orchestra (1994-95)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston - Symphony No. 2 ... A Phantasmagorey Ballet (1998)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston - Symphony No. 4 ... War and Peace (2001)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston for Andrew Price, principal oboe - Persephone and the Four Seasons (2006)
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston for Irina Muresanu - Violin Concerto ... for Irina (2009)
Cross Sound Festival 2001 - I've Got The Munchies (2001, rev. 2004)
Daniel Stepner, violinist - Chôros, opus 61 (1994-95)
Deborah and Larry Chud for Robert Levin and the Boston Classical Orchestra - Piano Concerto ... Mozartiana (2007)
Díaz Trio - La Chimera Fantastica (1995, rev. 1996)
Elizabeth & Lydia Reed - The Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards, opus 66 ... Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos (1996)
Epstein Family for Herb Epstein, violist - Voilà! ... Seven Movements for Violin and Viola!! (2001)
Fairfield Chamber Orchestra for Susan Radcliff - Concertino for trumpet, strings and timpani (1986)
Foundation for Universal Sacred Music - Mechthild von Magdeburg: Minnelieder an got (2005)
Hawthorne String Quartet - Tantric Psalms (1997, rev. 1999)
Hawthorne String Quartet - The New England Transcendentalists: Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts & Thoreau (2002)
Intermezzo, The New England Chamber Opera Series - The Inman Diaries ... A Chamber Opera in Two Acts (2007)
James David Christie and John Finney for the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church - Christmas Cantata (2001)
Jerome Foundation for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - String Trio (1985)
Jesuit Institute and Jesuit Community of Boston College for Ecclesia Consort of New England - Stabat Mater (2002)
Jonathan Singer, marimbist - Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas Brasileiras (2005)
King's Chapel, Boston - The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1998)
Omaha Symphony Orchestra - Symphony No. 1 ... Fallen Angels (1993, rev. 1995)
Paul Chou & Paul Salerni, a violin and piano duo - Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant (1993)
Peggo Horstman Hodes, soprano - Jack and the Blues (1997)
Peter Papesch, architect - Love Songs (1998), Summer Lilies (2000) & Morning Bliss (2000)
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston for Ann Hobson-Pilot - Harp Concerto (1985)
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston - Forró (1998)

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Personal Information

Family: Married to my ballet teacher, Kristin Beckwith; no children.
Leisure: Soaring in ballet classes five times a week, listening to Art Tatum and vacationing/working in Rome, Italy.
Collector: Ballet and music autographs, books, scores, CDs, DVDs, prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, orchids, toy pianos, domain names, etc.

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American Academy in Rome
American Academy in Rome, Society of Fellows American Composers Forum
American Music Center
Anne-Sophie Rodriguez, a ballet dancer in NYC
Artaria String Quartet
Danny Rosseel, a choreographer in Belgium
Meet The Composer
Nancy Zeltsman, a marimbist in Boston, MA
New England Conservatory of Music
Sabrina Ann Berger, a violinist in Randolph, NJ
Seph Itz, a photographer in Germany
Terezín Chamber Music Foundation
Tjako Van Schie, a pianist in the Netherlands