Little suite for string Orchestra on Canadian Folk songs
suite for harp & Chamber orchestra
Twelve Miniatures - for voice & ensemble
Gloria - Chorus & ensemble
Fantasia for Orchestra
Slow movements for strings
Biography
Harry Somers studied piano & theory under Dorothy Hornfelt, & composition with
the Canadian composer John Weinzweig. he then got a
scolarship that brought him to Darius Milhaud in Paris (1949-1950).
Somers was considered an eclectic composer with inspiration from
Mahler, Ives & Bártok
to electronic music. He developed a very original style
upon all of these influences. He earned his living as a radio commentator or
pianist in the CBC radio & television broadcasts. In 1960 he won
an award for his piece "Movement for Orchestra". For a
brief period he lived in Italy, 1969-1971. Then he returned to Canada were he lived
till his death in 1999.
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