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Pamela Harrison (28 November 1915 – 28 August 1990) was an English composer, pianist and music teacher.[1]


Biography


Pamela Harrison was born in Orpington, England, and studied with Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin at the Royal College of Music in London. During World War II, she worked as a school teacher.[2]

She first made her mark as a composer with the five movement Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola and cello, written in 1938 and first performed that year at a concert of the Society for the Promotion of New Music.[3] Her String Quartet was performed in 1944 at the Myra Hess National Gallery concerts. She went on to produce a variety of music, including chamber, orchestral and vocal music, with settings including Baudelaire, Herrick, Dowson and Edward Thomas.[1] Her work for small orchestra, A Suite for Timothy, was composed for the first birthday of her son in 1948 and first performed at Hampton Court in 1949.[4] The Viola Sonata was written in 1946 and performed a year later at the Wigmore Hall. Watson Forbes and Alan Richardson gave its first broadcast performance on 17 March 1951.[5]

Harrison married the cellist and conductor Harvey Phillips (1910 – active until late 1970s) in 1943. They lived initially at The Red House, Crockham Hill, Kent, and then at "The Cearne", (previously the house of Edward and Constance Garnett).[6] Harvey was a member of the Hirsch String Quartet and made his professional conducting debut with the Jacques Orchestra at the Wigmore Hall in 1950 (at which he conducted his wife's Suite for Tomothy).[7] That year he formed the Harvey Phillips String Orchestra (with leader Hugh Bean), which included in its repertoire Harrison's Five Poems of Ernest Dowson for tenor and string orchestra - the first London performance with Peter Pears as the soloist on 15 December 1952 at the Royal Festival Hall[8] - and her Six Poems of Baudelaire.[9] Pamela Harrison wrote her 1944 Cello Sonata for Harvey, who gave its debut performance with pianist John Wills at the Wigmore Hall on 9 May 1947.[10][11]

Jack Brymer was the soloist in several performances and broadcasts of the Clarinet Quintet in the late 1950s. In May 1959, Harrison's Concertante for piano and string orchestra with Eric Harrison (not related) as soloist was broadcast on BBC Radio.[12] An archive recording exists.[13]

Harrison's work was influenced by composers including E.J. Moeran, Arnold Bax and John Ireland, and French music. She also studied Dalcroze eurhythmics, giving exhibitions with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Brighton.[1] She died aged 74 in a car accident in Firle, East Sussex.[citation needed] Jack Brymer performed the short piece Drifting Away as a tribute at her memorial.


Selected works


Orchestral
Concertante
Chamber music
  1. White May Morning
  2. A Marsh Song
Organ
Piano
  1. Romney Marsh Goblin
  2. A Canterbury Tale
  3. Hoppers' Dance
  4. Childdingstone Cherry Pickers
  5. Ebb tide at Sandgate
  6. Faversham Fair
Vocal
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away
I'm happiest now when most away
The night is darkening round me
The battle has passed from the height
The starry night shall tidings bring
'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight
  1. Blindman's In
  2. A Goldfinch
  3. White
  4. Dreamland
  5. Where
  6. Why?
  7. The Horseman
  8. Nicoletta
Beata solitudo
Non suma qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
Villanelle of Marguerite's
Soli cantare periti Arcades
Choral

Recordings


Selected recordings include:


Sources



References


  1. Banfield, Stephen. 'Harrison, Pamela', in Grove Music Online (2004)
  2. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. p. 210. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  3. Radio Times, Issue 1574, 10 Jan 1954, p. 31
  4. "Pamela Harrison". Naxos. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  5. Radio Times, Issue 1426, 11 Mar 1951, p. 41
  6. Radio Times, Issue 1489, 25 May 1952, p. 15
  7. The Musical Times, Vol. 91, No. 1285 (March 1950), p. 110
  8. The Times, 16 December 1952, p. 11
  9. The Musical Times, Vol. 94, No. 1320 (February 1953), p. 82
  10. 'A New Sonata', The Daily Telegraph, 10 May 1947, p. 5
  11. Radio Times, Issue 1479, 16 Mar 1952, p. 39
  12. Radio Times, Issue 1854, 24 May 1959, p. 31
  13. Remus Platen YouTube channel
  14. Ambache Charitable Trust




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