Ross Lee Finney collection, 1938-1986.

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Ross Lee Finney collection, 1938-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615291

Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) was an American composer andteacher. Born in Wells, MN, he studied at the University ofMinnesota with Donald Ferguson, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger,and at Harvard with Edward Burlingame Hill. He also studied withRoger Sessions (1935), Alban Berg (1931-1932), and GianFrancesco Malipiero (1937).

131 sound recordings + 4 videocassettes.2 sound discs : analog ; 16 in.102 sound tape reels : analog ; 7 in.21 sound tape reels : analog ; 5 in.4 sound tape reels : analog ; 10 in.2 sound tape reels : analog ; 3 in.4 videocassettes : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997

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Originally composed as the slow movement of Sonata, for cello and piano; transcribed for string orchestra, 1940 at the request of Dmitri Mitropoulos. First performance by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis, Apr. 4, 1941, Dmitri Mitropoulos (to whom the work is dedicated) conducting--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Slow piece for string orchestra / Ross Lee Finney. 1940. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51793878 Commissioned...