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The MacMillan EncyclopEdia Of Music And Musicians In One Volume-I, 1938
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1composition department of the Westminster Choir School at Princeton, N. J., and director of their Festival of American Music. Harris' orchestral works include two symphonies, the overture, Johnny Comes Marching Home, Farewell to Pioneers, a suite Time, a violin concerto, a piano concerto, and a concerto for 'cello and chamber orchestra. His chamber music works include a concerto for piano, clarinet and string quartet, a sextet for wind instruments and piano, a string sextet, and a piano sonata; he has also written a great many choral works for unusual combinations of voices and instruments.
3Harris, Victor (William), American composer, conductor, organist and teacher, born New York, Apr. 27, 1869. He studied with Charles Blumi, William Courtney, Fred K. Schilling and Anton Seidl, and became a church organist, conducted the Utica Choral Union, was répétiteur and coach at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York; was assistant conductor of the Brighton Beach summer concerts, conducted the St. Cecilia Club in New York, and became well known as a singing teacher. He has written choruses and about a hundred songs, many of considerable popularity.
5Harris, William Henry, English composer, organist, teacher, and choral conductor, born London, Mar. 28, 1883. He studied with Walter Parratt and Walford Davies; compositions include songs, choral and organ works.
7Harrisburg, American city, capital of state of Pennsylvania. It is musically important for the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra which has been under the direction of George King Raudenbush for several years. This organization is composed of eighty-seven players and gives both subscription and children's concerts. The leading music society is the Wednesday Club, founded in 1882. Other organizations include a Brahms Club, Madrigal Club, Pianoforte Club and a Negro group, the Community Choral Society.
9Harrison, Annie Fortescue, English composer, the wife of Arthur William Hill, and the composer of an operetta, a cantata, many songs and piano pieces.
11Harrison, Beatrice, English violoncellist, born Roorkee, India, Dec. 9, 1892; pupil of W. E. Whitehouse at the Royal College of Music, where she won the gold medal at the age of ten, in open competition with four thousand aspirants, most of whom were adults. She then studied in Berlin with Hugo Becker at the Royal School of Music, where she received the Mendelssohn Prize, the first time it had been awarded to a 'cellist. She made a successful début in 1910 in Berlin; she has since toured extensively with her sister May, a violinist. She is considered one of the modern masters of her instrument.
13Harrison, J., an 18th century London music publisher. He began publishing music about 1779, and was the original publisher of Polly and of the thereafter long-endured Battle of Prague. His firm issued (for sometime after 1796) "The Pianoforte Magazine," and is credited with having been perhaps the first sellers of pianos on the installment plan.
15Harrison, Jeanne (Mrs. Dupuy Lee H.), American soprano and music teacher, born New Orleans, Dec. 25, 1869. She studied with Julie Calvée Boudousquié and others, made her début when sixteen, and after singing in the South, became a well-known teacher.
17Harrison, Julius Allen Greenway, English composer and conductor, born Stourport, Worcestershire, Mar. 26, 1885. He studied under Granville Bantock in Birmingham and became an operatic conductor with the Beecham Opera Company and its successor, the British National Opera Company. He then succeeded Goossens as conductor of the Handel Society, and conducted other opera and orchestral organizations. He is a versatile rather than an original composer of orchestral and chamber music and songs. Probably his best-known work is a humoresque for string quartet, Widdicombe Fair.
19Harrison, May, English violinist, born at Roorkee, India in Mar. 1891, sister of Beatrice. She studied under Arbos and Rivarde at the Royal College of Music, and, like her sister, won the gold medal against three thousand aspirants. She then studied with Leopold Auer in Petrograd, and in 1904 made her début in London with great success. She has since toured extensively with her sister Beatrice, the well-known 'cellist. She has appeared with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, and in 1909 took Kreisler's place at the Mendelssohn Centennial Celebration at Helsingfors. She is an exceptionally fine interpreter of classical music.
21Harrison, Samuel, English tenor, born Belper, Derbyshire, Sept. 8, 1760; died London, June 25, 1812. He appeared at the Concert of Ancient Music at London in 1776 as a solo soprano singer, but lost his voice in 1778, and did not regain it for six years. He then appeared at the Handel Commemoration of 1784, and from then on was a leading concert singer. His voice had a range of two octaves and was sweet, pure and even in tone, but deficient in power.
23Harrison, Sidney, contemporary American pianist and composer. His piano works include Four Preludes, which show the influence of the French impressionists.
25Harrison, Theodore, contemporary American singer and vocal teacher. He studied with Corabbi and Lombardi in Italy, Von Kraus in Germany, Shakespeare and Browning in England, and Decreus and Robert Schmitz in Paris. He sang in opera in Italy, toured extensively, and appeared as soloist with leading orchestras in Europe and America; he is now a teacher at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.
27Harrison, William, English tenor, born Marylebone, June 15, 1813; died London, Nov. 9, 1868. He was an amateur concert singer and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He made his stage début at Covent Garden in 1839. A few years later he appeared at
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