biography
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Harris, Roy
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popular name of LeRoy Ellsworth Harris
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| lived:
| (1898–1979)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Lincoln Co, Oklahoma, USA. A truck driver, he turned to music at 24, and after tuition in California won a Guggenheim scholarship, enabling him to study in Paris under Nadia Boulanger. He later held positions in Californian universities as a teacher of composition. His music is ruggedly American in character, as in his symphonic overture When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1935). He wrote 16 symphonies, the third being the best known. |
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