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Albert Weisser
WEISSER, ALBERT (–), U.S. musicologist, composer, editor, and choral conductor. Born in New York City of Russian-Jewish parentage, he attended high school in Queens and sang in the choir of his uncle, the renowned cantor Joshua S. *Weisser. He studied piano with Isaiah Seligman and played with various dance and jazz bands prior to entering New York University in In he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and later earned a Purple Heart for wounds received during the Normandy invasion. While convalescing in England, he studied privately with composer Ralph Vaughn Williams. He resumed his studies in composition (at NYU) under Miriam Bauer and Philip James. Upon graduating in , he entered the master's program in musicology. Under the guidance of Curt Sachs, he wrote his thesis on "The Jewish National Music in Russia," which was later published as The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music: Events and Figures, Eastern Europe and America (). He also studied privately with Lazare *Saminsky, who encouraged his work on the St. Petersburg School. He was music director of Temple Israel (Great Neck) until He taught at Brooklyn College from to and at the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), where he taught the history of Jewish music and music theory from until h
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HARRISS,CHARLESALBERTEDWIN, musician, impresario, and educator; b. midnight 16–17 Dec in London, England, son of Edwin Harriss, an organist, choir master, and concert manager, and Elizabeth Duff; m. 15 Sept. in Cobourg, Ont., Ella Frances Shoenberger, née Beatty (d. ), daughter of Dr John Beatty, a former professor at Victoria College there; they had no children; d. 31 July in Ottawa and was buried in Cobourg.
Charles Harriss was an ardent and outspoken British imperialist whose lifelong quest was to establish British musical excellence in Canada and in other parts of the empire. His persuasive personality, enthusiasm, organizational abilities, and varied musical talents, combined with his ambition, grandiose vision, and prominent social standing ensured that the majority of his projects were realized.
Harriss first studied music with his father, and then was educated in the English cathedral tradition as an Ouseley scholar at St Michael’s College, Tenbury, in the early or mid s. After his initial church appointment as choir director at St John’s in Wrexham, Wales, he was apprenticed with Frederick Davis of Reading, near London, before becoming parish organist in Welshpool, Wales, in When Susan Agnes Bernard*, wife of Canadian p
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