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Donald Harris (composer)

Donald Harris 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.

Works
Stage worksThe Legend Of John Henry (1954) ballet for orchestra • The Golden Deer (1955) ballet for orchestra • Intervals (1959) dance work for chamber ensemble OtherPiano Sonata (1957) • Fantasy For Violin & Piano (1957) • Symphony In Two Movements (1958–1961) • String Quartet (1965) • Ludus (1966) for ten instruments • Ludus II (1973) for five instruments • On Variations (1976) for chamber orchestra • Charmes (1971–1980; unfinished) for soprano and orchestra; after the poems of Paul ValéryFor The Night To Wear (1978) for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble; after the Hortense Flexner poem • Balladen (1979) for solo piano • Of Hartford In A Purple Light (1979) for soprano with piano accompaniment; after the Wallace Stevens poem • Prelude To A Concert In Connecticut (1981) for orchestra • Les Mains (1983) for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment; after the Marguerite Yourcenar poem • Meditations (1984) for solo organ, commissioned by the South Congregational-First Baptist Church, New Britain, Connecticut, and its organist and music director, Richard Coffey, to honor the 10th anniversary of the Cooper Memorial Organ. Includes memorials to Thomas Putsche (Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sine Nomine) and Norman Dinerstein (Kol Nidre). • Three Fanfares For Four Horns (1984) • Canzona & Carol (1986) for double brass quintet and timpani • Pierrot Lieder (1988) for soprano and chamber ensemble; after the Albert Giraud poem • Mermaid Variations (1992) for chamber orchestra • String Quartet #2 (2002) • A Lyric Fanfare (2003) for orchestra • Five Tempi (Ludus III) (2004) for chamber ensemble • Kaleidoscope (2007) for orchestra ==Awards and honors==
Awards and honors
Harris was awarded a Fulbright Award in 1956, the Prince Rainier III of Monaco Composition Award in 1962 (deuxieme mention), a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Composition in 1974, the A.C. Fuller Award of the Julius Hartt Musical Foundation in 1988, and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award in 1989 (for co-editing The Berg Schoenberg Correspondence ). He received commissions with the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation (Library of Congress), Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation (Library of Congress), St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Radio France, Cleveland Orchestra, Goethe Institute (Boston), Boston Musica Viva, Connecticut Public Radio, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, and Festival of Contemporary American Music at Tanglewood. He received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Ohio State in June 2012. == Further reading ==
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