American composer Henry Leland Clarke (1907-1992) was born in Dover, H and received a bachelor’s from Harvard University in 1928 and a master’s in 1929. Clarke was a John Harvard Traveling fellow from 1929 to 1930. He began teaching in 1932 and served on the faculty of Bennington College and Westminster Choir College before returning to Harvard to earn a Ph.D. in 1947. Clarke was a lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles, Vassar College, University of Washington at Seattle, and Brattleboro Music Center. He was named Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in 1977.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Henry Clarke
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Deerfield, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1966, 1967
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Henry Clarke worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…