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Donald Harris
Emeritus Dean, College of tha Arts
Professor, School of Music
Areas of Expertise
• Music composition
Dr. Harris served on the faculty and as an administrator at The New England
Conservatory of Music (1967-1977) and the Hartt School of Music, University
of Hartford (1977-1988), before becoming dean of the College of the Arts
and professor of music at Ohio State. From 1954 until 1968, Professor
Harris lived in Paris, where he was music consultant to the United States
Information Service, and produced the city's first post-war Festival of
Contemporary American Music. A student of Ross Lee Finney, he also studied
with Lukas Foss, Boris Blacher, Nadia Boulanger and Max Deutsch. Professor
Harris has received numerous commissions, including the Serge Koussevitzky
Music Foundation, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library
of Congress, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Radio France, and the Cleveland
Orchestra. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship (1956) and Guggenheim
Fellowship (1966). As co-editor of the W.W. Norton publication of the
correspondence between Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg, he received an
ASCAP Deems Taylor award in 1989. He was honored with an award in composition
from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1991), which
led to a retrospective recording of his work on the CRI label in 1994.
His music is published by the Editions Jobert in France, and in this country
by Theodore Presser and GUNMAR Music.
Education
• MM, BM, Composition, University of Michigan |
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