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Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer. He wrote music on American subjects, and is best known for his Symphony No. 3 . Life
Richard Frank Keith Harris (born 5 March 1968) is a London-based composer, arranger, transcriber, teacher and pianist. Richard Harris studied composition and orchestration at the University of Edinburgh , where his tutors included Kenneth Leighton .
William Lewarne Harris (23 May 1929 - 17 August 2013) was an English composer and teacher. Harris was born in Birkenhead. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury until the war saw him evacuated to St Austell in Cornwall. He performed National Service with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. [1]
Harris is best remembered today for his Anglican church music, though during his lifetime he was mainly known for his achievements as a choir-trainer.His most famous works are two anthems for unaccompanied double choir: Faire is the heaven (1925), a setting of Edmund Spenser's poem "An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie"; [8] and Bring us, O Lord God, a setting of a poem by John Donne first heard in ...
Barry Doyle Harris (December 15, 1929 – December 8, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. He was an exponent of the bebop style. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Influenced by Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell , [ 3 ] Harris in turn influenced and mentored bebop musicians including Donald Byrd , Paul Chambers , Curtis ...
Albert Harris (13 February 1916 – 14 February 2005) was an English musician who worked most of his life in Hollywood as an orchestrator, arranger and composer for several of the big Film Studios and for such pop icons as Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack and Cher.
Margaret Rosezarian Harris (September 15, 1943 – March 7, 2000) was an American musician, conductor, composer, and educator, the first African-American woman to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and 13 other cities' orchestras.
Donald Harris (April 7, 1931, in St. Paul, Minnesota – March 29, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio) [1] was an American composer who taught music at Ohio State University for 22 years. He was Dean of the College of the Arts from 1988 to 1997. [2] Harris earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Music from the University of Michigan.