Harvey Perrin

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Harvey Dale Perrin (born July 20, 1905 in Batesville , Indiana , † January 2, 1999 in Toronto ) was a Canadian music teacher, violinist, violist and choir conductor.

Perrin came to Canada in 1910. He had lessons with George Ziegler at Kitchener College and played viola and violin in the Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra in 1919 . He continued his education at the University of Toronto with Frank Blachford , Herbert A. Fricker , Luigi von Kunits , George Lambert and Ettore Mazzoleni and was a member of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir until the early 1940s .

From 1944 to 1956 Perrin was the conductor of the Harvey Perrin Choir , with which he a. a. Gave concerts on the radio with the CBC , then he directed the Toronto Men Teachers' Choir from 1958 to 1971 . From 1958 to 1971 he conducted the schoolchildren's mass choirs at the annual May Festival Concerts in Toronto.

From 1947 Perrin was vice director, from 1958 to 1971 director of music of the Toronto Board of Education . He was also president of the music section of the Ontario Educational Association and from 1969 to 1971 of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators' Association . Between 1946 and 1966 he gave summer courses on methods of school music education. In 1966 he took a trip to Hungary to study the methods of music education of Zoltán Kodály , as a result of which he co-authored the book The new Approach to Music . In 1995 he was honored with the City of Toronto Award of Merit .

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SURNAME Perrin, Harvey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perrin, Harvey Dale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian music educator, violinist, violist and choir conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Batesville , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1999
Place of death Toronto