Lee Hoiby was born in Madison in 1926 and recorded his last piano performance here in 2007. In the decades between, he became one of America?s leading composers, known and cherished best by the singers who revere his vocal works. Hoiby, who earned a bachelor?s degree in music at UW-Madison in 1947 before studying with the great Gian Carlo Menotti, died Monday in New York.
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