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91-yr-old Icelander revealed her longevity secret

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erla's Secret)
Wed Jul 2 14:06:20 2025

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 19:47:48 +0200
From: "Erla's Secret" <91-yroldgrandma@lostgenerator.sa.com>
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91-yr-old Icelander revealed her longevity secret

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isited a series of midwestern and southwestern U.S. campuses offering summer musical institutes. The following summer Leeson taught at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, as he did in 1939.

From 1934 to 1939, Leeson collaborated with American composer Paul Creston, resulting in several major pieces for the classical saxophone repertoire, which they premiered. Leeson and Creston recorded the composer's "Suite" (a-sax/pno) in 1938 for New Music Quarterly Recordings (catalog 1314-A-B).(

On February 5, 1937, Cecil Leeson was the first saxophonist to play at Town Hall in New York City. He was also one of the first saxophonists to appear as a soloist with major American symphony orchestras. More than 50 works for saxophone were written for him by composers such as Leon Stein, Edvard Moritz, Paul Creston, and Ferde Grofé.

Leeson taught saxophone performance at Northwestern University from 1955 to 1961 and then at Ball State University. His papers and his collection of original Adolphe Sax and other famous saxophones are in the America's National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota.

The 2nd World Saxophone Congress in Chicago in 1970, "honored Leeson for 50 years of pioneering and contributing to the establishment of the saxophone in the field of music".

According to Stephen Cottrell, "Leeson's style of saxophone performance established in the United States a school of classical saxophone playing that differed from the Europ

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