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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1Harrison, Beatrice, violoncellist; b. Roorkee, India, Dec. 9, 1892. Pupil of Prof. W. E. Whitehouse at the R. C. M., where at the age of 10 she won the gold medal of the Assoc. Bd. of the R. C. M. and R. A. M. in open competition with 4,000 aspirants (mostly adults). Although she made a most successful appearance with the Queen's Hall Orch. (H. J. Wood) on May 29, 1907, she did not begin her career, but went to Berlin, where she was for almost 3 years a pupil of Hugo Becker at the Kgl. Hochschule für Musik, graduating as the winner of the coveted Mendelssohn Prize (for the first time awarded to a 'cellist). She then made her début in the fall of 1910 in Berlin with pronounced success; made many European tours thereafter, mostly in company with her sister May, the violinist; from 1913–15 she made an extensive and very successful tour of the U. S.; 1939, was living in Oxted, Surrey, England, making frequent public appearances. She plays a fine Petrus Guarnerius.
3Harrison, Guy Fraser, conductor; b. Guildford, Surrey, England, Nov. 6, 1894; st. at Oxford and at the R. C. M., where he won an org. scholarship; 1914–20, org. of Episcopal Cath., Manila, P. I.; 1920–24, do. of St. Paul's Ch., Rochester, N. Y.; 1924–29, cond. of Eastman Th. Orch., Rochester; since 1929 do. of Rochester Civic Orch. and assoc. cond. of Rochester Philh.; also guest-cond. with Minneapolis (1937–39) and Washington (1936, '39) Symph. Orchs., Phila. Orch. (1936) and at Cleveland Great Lakes Exposition (1936). Has held teaching positions at Cons. of Music of Univ. of the Philippines, Manila, and at Eastman School of Music, Rochester. 1940, living in Rochester.
5Harrison, Julius Allen Greenway, English composer; b. Stourport, Worcestershire, Mar. 26, 1885; studied with Granville Bantock; cond. of the Beecham Opera Co. and, for several years, of the Scottish Symph. Orch.; later a cond. of the British Natl. Opera Co.; 1925, succeeded Goossens as leader of the Handel Soc., London; since 1930 cond. of the Hastings Corp., Hastings. He is a composer of note, using national folk-material with skill.—Works: The opera The Canterbury Pilgrims; Down Among the Dead Men (Variations), for orch.; Rapunzel and Worcestershire Pieces, also for orch. (1919; very successful); the cantatas Cleopatra and Rosalys; Requiem of Archangels; 2 str.-quartets; a quintet for harp and strs.; organ-pieces; pf.-works; sacred music and numerous songs.
7Harrison, May, violinist; b. Roorkee, India, March, 1891. Pupil at the R. C. M. of E. Arbos and A. Rivarde; like her sister Beatrice, she won at the age of 10 the gold medal of the Assoc. Bd. of the R. C. M. and R. A. M. over 3,000 competitors; she then st. for some time under L. Auer in St. Petersburg; made her début in 1904 in London with marked success, and has since toured Europe, mostly in company with her sister. In 1906 she appeared with the Madrid Symph. Orch., of which her teacher, Arbos, was cond.; at the Mendelssohn Centennial celebration in Helsingfors (1909) she took the place of Kreisler, who had suddenly become indisposed; 1939, was living in Oxted, Surrey, England.
9Harriss, Charles Albert Edwin, comp. and organist; b. London, Dec. 15, 1862; d. Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 1, 1929. At eight he was chorister at St. Mark's, Wrexham, where his father (Edwin H.) was organist. Ouseley scholar at St. Michael's Coll., Tenbury, in 1875; asst.-org. at St. Giles', Reading, in 1880; org. at Welshpool, and private org. to the Earl of Powis, in 1881. From 1883 he lived with his father at Montreal, Canada; at first as org. and 'regens chori' at Christ Ch. Cathedral, later at the Ch. of St. James the Apostle, now famed for excellent music. Also founded a glee and madrigal society.—Works: Opera Torquil (Montreal, 1896); cantata Daniel before the King (1890); many anthems; pf.- and org.-music, songs, etc.
11Harsan'yi, Tibor, Hungarian composer; b. Nagy Kanitza, June 27, 1898; since 1923 living in Paris.—Works: Les Invités (Germany, 1930; Paris, 1937); the ballet Le dernier Songe (Budapest, 1920); Symph. Ouverture for str.-quartet (1926); orchl. suite (1928); Trois danses (1930); pf.-pieces; chamber-music; songs. Editor of a pf.-coll., Dances of Modern Composers (Paris, 1935).
13Hart, Frederic Patton, composer; b. Aberdeen, Washington, Sept. 5, 1898; studied at the Amer. Cons., Chicago (gold medal) and at the Art Inst. there, later with Rubin Goldmark, Ernest Hutcheson, Nadia Boulanger and at the Diller-Quaile School in N. Y.; since 1923 teacher at the Diller-Quaile School; since 1929 member of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence Coll., Bronxville, N. Y.; 1934–35, lecturer at Mills Coll. summer school.—Works: A 3-act romantic opera, The Wheel of Fortune (1934); a 1-act ballet-opera, The Romance of Robot (Chamber Opera, N. Y., Federal Music Project, 1937); a Fantastic Opera (1937); Overture to a Shakespearian Comedy for orch. (1927); Trio in E m. (1926); Adagio and Scherzo for str.-quartet (1931); str.-quartet (1937); also various pf.-pieces and songs, many of which have been publ.
15Hart, Fritz Bennicke, composer and conductor; b. in England, Nov. 2, 1874; went to Australia in 1909 and settled there; dir. of the Melbourne Cons.; joint artistic dir. of the Melbourne Symph. Orch.; F.R.C.M.—Comps.:
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