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US-Canadian composer dies, 89

US-Canadian composer dies, 89

The composer and educator Jack Behrens passed away earlier this month in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His 1970 orchestral work The Sound of Milo was warmly received.

Behrens was chair of music theory and composition at the University of Western Ontario from 1976, and then dean of the music faculty from until 1986. Following his retirement, Behrens was active at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music as Director of Academic Studies at The Glenn Gould School.

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