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Harry Freedman
12+ albums
contemporary classicalClassicalpolandcomposergammarec
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Harry Freedman (Henryk Frydmann), OC (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadian composer, english hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including the scores to films such as The Bloody Brood (1959), Isabel (1968), The Act of the Heart (1970), The Pyx (1973) and The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog (1980), and composed a substantial amount of chamber music. He also composed music for six ballets, an opera, some incidental music for the theatre, and a few vocal art songs and choral works. He was awarded a Juno Award in 1996 for his symphonic work Touchings, which was recorded by the Esprit Orchestra on the Nexus label. He won the 1998 composition prize at the International Rostrum of Composers for Borealis, a symphonic work co-commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Soundstreams Canada, and CBC Radio. In 2002 the Canadian Music Centre released a commercial recording dedicated to his music, Canadian Composers Portraits: Harry Freedman. At the age of three, Freedman immigrated with his family from Poland to Canada where the family settled in Medicine Hat, Alberta. His father worked in the fur trade. At the age of 9, Freedman and his family relocated to Winnipeg where he enrolled at the Winnipeg School of Art at the age of 13 to study the art of painting. Freedman's musical training began relatively late. He was an admirer of big band music and began taking his first music lessons in the clarinet in 1940 at t
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Colgrass, M.: Dream Dancer / Messiaen, O.: Oiseaux Exotiques / Kucharzyk, H.: Some Assembly Required (Northern Winds)
Freedman, H.: Vocal Music
Forsyth / Freedman: Atayoskewin Suite / Oiseaux Exotiques Suite
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The Pyx
Introduction To Canadian Music
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Freedman, H.: The Tokaido
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Pieces for Solo Horn
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Harry Freedman: The Concert Recordings
Ovation, Vol. 1
Freedman, H.: Canadian Composers Portraits
Canadian Composers Portraits: Harry Freedman
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Colgrass, M.: Dream Dancer / Messiaen, O.: Oiseaux Exotiques / Kucharzyk, H.: Some Assembly