John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938 in Orange, New Jersey) is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works. Harbison won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of sixteen in 1954. He studied music at Harvard University, where he sang with the Harvard Glee Club, and later at Princeton. He is an Institute Professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wikipedia
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John Harbison is one of America's most distinguished artistic figures. Among his principal works are four string quartets, five symphonies, the cantata The Flight Into Egypt , which earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and three operas, including The Gre www.schirmer.com/composers/harbison_bio.html
