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Biography
Harry Stewart Somers, CC, composer, pianist (born 11 September 1925 in Toronto, ON; died 9 March 1999 in Toronto, ON). Harry Somers was one of Canada's most prolific, original and important composers. Incredibly versatile, he produced major scores for stage, concert hall, film, radio and television, and employed voices, instruments and synthetic sounds in a wide variety of forms, traditional and contemporary. Always associated with intense feeling, his work is simple, eloquent and forceful, often using juxtaposition of styles, dramatic silences and sharp fluctuations in volume, which he called “dynamic unrest.” His music is internationally respected and performed throughout the Western world. He received major commissions from most of Canada's musical and theatrical organizations, and was a keen promoter of Canadian music. He was the first Canadian composer to be made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | Opera Fund/Canadian Opera Creation Fund | 2003 | Opera Fund/Canadian Opera Creation Fund | 2002 | Opera for the Eighties and Beyond | 1989 |
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