Benson, Warren Frank 26.jan.1924-6.oct.2005 USA Michigan, Detroit - NY, Rochester
percussionist, self-taught in composition, 1949 BM and 1951 MM from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 1950-1951 Fulbright teaching grants to Greece, 1970 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, 1971 Lillian Fairchild award, 1946 timpanist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Ford Orchestra, 1950-1952 on the faculty of Anatolia College in Salonica Greece, 1952-1953 band and orchestra director at Mars Hill College North Carolina, 1953-1967 professor and composer-in-residence at Ithaca College NY, 1967-1993 professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester NY ; 1976 residing at 10 Reitz Parkway in Pittsford NY

Title Parts


[] Aeolian song. Saxophone and piano
Daniel Gauthier, Jang Eun Bae. MDG 60311492

[] Horn concerto. 1971
[] Concertino. Alto saxophone and orchestra. 1955 [] 1 - Very slowly
[] 2 - Slowly peacefully
[] 3 - Lively bouyantly
[] The leaves are falling. Band
[] Remembrance. Band
[] Night song. Band
[] Symphony for drums and wind orchestra
[] Helix. Tuba and winds
[] Recuerdo. Oboe, english horn and winds
[] Star edge. Saxophone and winds
[] The solitary dancer. Wind ensemble
[] Shadow wood. Soprano and winds
[] Transylvania fanfare. Wind ensemble
[] Trio. Percussion
[] Streams. Percussion
[] 3 Pieces. Percussion
[] Nara. Saxophone, flute, piano and percussion
[] Capriccio. Violin, viola, cello and piano. 1971
[] The dream net. Saxophone and string quartet
[] Prologue. Trumpet
[] Soliloquy. Horn
[] Aubade. Trombone
[] Arioso. Tuba
[] Marche. Wind quintet
[] Love is. Choir
[] An Englishman with an atlas. Choir
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