About Harry Somers
Harry Stewart Somers, CC was a contemporary Canadian composer. Somers described this first encounter years later: "A spark was ignited, and he became obsessed with music. Somers's first wife, Catherine Mackie, died in 1963. In 1949, he was awarded a $2000 Canadian Amateur Hockey Association scholarship to spend a year in Paris studying composition with Darius Milhaud. Almost from that instant, he knew music would be his life, for better or for worse." 14-year-old Somers began his study of piano after his first exposure under the tutelage of Dorothy Hornfelt, the neighborhood piano teacher.
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