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Johana Harris (1912-1995), piano
Rec. 1938, New York
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Johana (b Beula) Harris (b Duffey). Pianist, teacher, composer, folksinger, b Ottawa 31 Dec 1912, d Los Angeles 5 Jun 1995. Beula Duffey, a child prodigy, started publicly performing advanced piano pieces and her compositions at age eight. She began studying at Ottawa's Canadian Conservatory of Music with Bertha Laverde Worden and Henry Puddicombe. After turning down a scholarship offered by the Hambourg Conservatory in Toronto, at 11 she travelled to New York to study privately with Ernest Hutcheson.
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Johana Harris (1912-1995), piano
Rec. 1938, New York
Available for download from publicdomain.lafauniere.info
Johana (b Beula) Harris (b Duffey). Pianist, teacher, composer, folksinger, b Ottawa 31 Dec 1912, d Los Angeles 5 Jun 1995. Beula Duffey, a child prodigy, started publicly performing advanced piano pieces and her compositions at age eight. She began studying at Ottawa's Canadian Conservatory of Music with Bertha Laverde Worden and Henry Puddicombe. After turning down a scholarship offered by the Hambourg Conservatory in Toronto, at 11 she travelled to New York to study privately with Ernest Hutcheson.
For more info please visit:
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/johana-harris-emc
