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Roy
Harris was one of Americas premier composers of 20th Century classical
music. His works are performed world wide as well as in the White
House, where he and his wife, concert piano virtuoso, and child
prodigy, Johana Harris, were guests during the administrations of
several presidents, including John Kennedy. Harris studied in Paris
for 3 years, on Guggenheim Fellowships with Nadia Boulanger, whose
other students included Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. He
was the first American composer to conduct his own works in Russia,
where he conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic, as a cultural ambassador
for the United States State Department. Harris also worked on recording
projects with his son.
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Johana
Harris, a child prodigy performed for King Edward, the King of England,
at the age of 6. She subsequently attended The Juilliard School of
Music, where she taught post graduate courses at the age of 15.
When she and her husband were professors at Princeton, she would
play chamber music with Albert Einstein, who was also a professor
at Princeton at the time. At the age of 75, she was the first professor
from the music department at UCLA, to be awarded the distinguished
professor award from that university, where she and her husband
both taught, for more than 25 years. She had countless solo recordings
released during her illustrious career and played on studio albums,
film and television scores in Hollywood in conjunction with her
son.
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