Discipline: Music Composition

Joel Harrison

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014

Joel Harrison commenced work on his second jazz orchestra CD. The last one, Infinite Possibility, began development at MacDowell. He has released 15 CDs.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Joel Harrison 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…

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