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    Harry Freedman

    Weinzweig's influence was manifest in Freedman's use of various aspects of the 12-tone technique, strictly in The Tokaido (1964) for chamber ensemble, and more informally in Tangents (1967) for orchestra.

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    Harry Freedman

    Harry Freedman (b Henryk Frydmann). Composer, english hornist, educator, b Lodz, Poland, 5 Apr 1922, naturalized Canadian 1932, d Toronto 16 Sep 2005.

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    Harry Gulkin

    Harry Gulkin, film producer, administrator (born 14 November 1927 in Montreal, QC; died 23 July 2018 in Montreal). Charming and mischievously witty, Harry Gulkin was a successful film producer and an influential figure in the Quebec film industry. He is perhaps best known for co-producing Ján Kadár’s Lies My Father Told Me (1975) — winner of six Canadian Film Awards and the only Canadian movie to win a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film — and for being the biological father of Sarah Polley, as revealed in her documentary Stories We Tell (2012).

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    Harry Hibbs

    Harry (Henry Thomas Joseph) Hibbs. Singer-songwriter, accordionist, b Bell Island, Nfld, 1942, d Toronto 21 Dec 1989. His father, who worked in the Bell Island iron mines, was a fiddler. The younger Hibbs played button accordion as a boy. He moved to Toronto in 1961 and worked in various factories.

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    Harry Hill

    Harry (Henry) Hill. Educator, choir conductor, composer, b Burnley, Lancashire, England, 21 Aug 1893, d Ottawa 24 Apr 1972; B MUS ED (Sherwood Music School) 1931. He was taken to Peterborough, Ont, at 12.

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    Harry J. Boyle

    Harry J. Boyle, broadcaster, author (b at St Augustine, Ont 7 Oct 1915). He worked alternately as a freelance writer and radio reporter in southwestern Ontario before joining the CBC in Toronto in 1942.

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    Harry Macdonough

    Harry (John Scantlebury) Macdonough (b MacDonald). Ballad tenor, b Hamilton, Ont, 30 May 1871, d New York 26 Sep 1931. He was one of the two most popular ballad tenors of his day, the other being his compatriot Henry Burr. He began his career as a church soloist.

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    Harry Mossfield

    Harry Mossfield. Baritone, b Sydney, Australia, 7 Jul 1919. He was known as a singer in Australia when he emigrated in 1952 to Vancouver.

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    Harry Puddicombe

    Harry (b Henry) Puddicombe. Teacher, b London, Ont, 14 Jun 1870?, d Ottawa 7 Jun 1953. Son of a cabinet maker, he sought a career in music instead of learning his father's trade. At 21 he went to Leipzig to study with Martin Krause in the hope of becoming a concert pianist.

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    Harry Rasky

    Harry Rasky went on to co-create CBC-TV's documentary/news department and later moved to New York City. From 1957 throughout the 1960s he produced freelance documentaries and current affairs programs for every major US network; then in 1967 he formed Harry Rasky Productions.

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    Harry Somers

    Harry Stewart Somers, CC, composer, pianist (born 11 September 1925 in Toronto, ON; died 9 March 1999 in Toronto, ON).

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    Harry Thomas

    Harry (Reginald Thomas Broughton) Thomas. Pianist, composer, b Bristol, 24 Mar 1890, d Montreal 11 Jul 1941. A self-taught musician with a talent for improvisation, Thomas moved to Montreal in 1909 and played for silent films at local theatres, including the Regent, until ca 1920.

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    Harry Upperton Knight

    Harry Upperton Knight, photographer (b at Tillington, Eng 6 July 1873; d at Victoria 28 Dec 1973). After operating a PHOTOGRAPHY studio in Cranleigh, Eng, Knight immigrated to Canada in 1910. He sold real estate in Vancouver, and in 1917 he established a studio in Victoria.

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    Harvey Olnick

    Harvey (Joel) Olnick. Musicologist, teacher, b New York 18 Dec 1917, d Toronto 30 Oct 2003; B SC (City, New York) 1940, MA (Columbia) 1948. He began to study piano at The Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School) at six.

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    Harvey Perrin

    Perrin, Harvey (Dale). Educator, conductor, violinist, violist, arranger, b Batesville, Ind, 20 Jul 1905, naturalized Canadian 1926, d Toronto 2 Jan 1999; BA (Toronto) 1933, B PAED (Toronto) 1937.

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