Dai-Keong Lee

Dai- Keong Lee ( born September 2, 1915 in Honolulu, Hawaii Territory; † 1 December 2005) was a Hawaiian composer.

Dai- Keong Lee studied with Roger Sessions at Princeton University, at Frederick Jacobi at the Juilliard School of Music under Otto Luening at Columbia University and with Aaron Copland and lived as a freelance composer in New York City.

He composed six operas, the music for the Broadway comedy Teahouse of the August Moon, a ballet, a ballet suite, two symphonies, a Polynesian Suite, a dance piece and a concerto grosso for strings, a violin concerto, a string quartet, orchestral songs, choral works and piano pieces.

  • American composer
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Born in 1915
  • Died in 2005
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