The death has been made known of Lea Foli, concertmaster of the Winnipeg Symphony from 1960 and of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1969 to 1988. He was 91.
Lea Foli was also a faculty member of the Aspen Festival and of Interlochen and a founder of the University of M innesora String Quartet.
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