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The Roy Harris Story

In addition to his three Guggenheim Fellowships, an Intercollegiate Fellowship for composition, teaching, and lecturing (likely awarded during the early20s), and the Pasadena Music and Arts Association Fellowship, Harris received a great many other honors throughout his career. Among them are the Award of Merit from the National Association of Composers and Conductors (1940); an award from the National Committee for Music Appreciation for the Folksong Symphony (1940); a citation from the United States Treasury Dept. "in recognition of distinguished and patriotic services to our country" (1941); election as an Honorary Fellow for Stanford University for the Ode to Truth (1941); an Honorary Doctor of Music from Rutgers University (1941); the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal "for eminent services to chamber music" (1942); election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944, followed in 1979 by induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters); an Honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Rochester (1944); a first citation honor from the National Radio Education Convention in Chicago for the series Let's Make Music (1944); a citation for distinguished citizenship from Lee Knous, Governor of Colorado (1948); election as Man of the Year by the Pittsburgh Junior Chamber of Commerce (1953); the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Award for Symphony No. 7 (1954); an Honorary Doctor of Music from the Philadelphia Academy of Music (1956); election to National Honorary Life Membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity (1956); induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame (1957; he also received during the same visit on which this last honor was accorded an induction into the Ponca Indian Tribe as an Honorary Chief); election to the Academia de Bellas Artes y Sciencias de Puerto Rico (1961); an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Westminster Choir College (1964); an honorary membership in Alpha Nu (the National Jesuit Honor Society; 1965); election as a Knight Commander of the Knightly Order of St Brigitte (1965); La Medalla del Institute Colombiana de Cultura in Bogota (1972); a Medal of Achievement from the Brandeis University Creative Arts Commission (1973); and appointments as Composer Laureate of the City of Covina (1976) and Honorary Composer Laureate of the State of California (1977).

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