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HARMONY HILL

Fine books and music from America's gilded Age

Artists featured on our recordings have all performed in the Cornish Colony. Writers Fern K. Meyers and James B. Atkinson have earned distinguished reputations as scholars and writers about the Cornish Art Colony. Their book New Hampshire's Cornish Colony was nominated for a literary award in non fiction. Fern K. Meyers is well respected for her careful research and skillful writing about the women and men associated with the Cornish Art Colony.

 

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Elliot Markow has also performed with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was assistant concertmaster of the New Orleans Symphony and, since moving to NH, is concertmaster of the NH Philharmonic and Granite State Symphony. He has taught at the University of New Orleans and Tulane and currently teaches at the Manchester Community Music School.

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Mary Battey  has also performed for many years with the Dallas Symphony before returning to the New England area. She is active as a free-lance musician performing with the New Hampshire Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Granite State Symphony in addition to Opera North and SilverWood, USA.

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Mary Jane Rupert has also given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and Beijing Concert Hall. She has recorded on the North Star label and published arrangements for the Boston Editions Company. Ms. Rupert is a busy free-lance musician based in Boston and is currently on the faculty at the Boston Conservatory and Wellesley College.

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Fern Meyers has also performed as a free-lance musician in Washington, DC and Boston, MA. She has been a principal ‘cellist in the greater Boston area and taught at the New England Conservatory North Shore Extension. Ms. Meyers has been 'cellist with several chamber groups including SilverWood, USA and recorded for Century Studios in addition to the Harmony Hill label. She has lectured and written extensively about the Cornish Colony and collaborated with author James B. Atkinson in writing New Hampshire's Cornish Colony in the award winning series Images of America.

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James B. Atkinson is President of the Cornish Historical Society and a distinguished writer and lecturer on the Cornish Colony. He coauthored the book Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & The Cornish Colony. He has taught English and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and other prestigious institutions and written and translated several scholarly works from French and Italian. Atkinson is listed in Who's Who in America.

                         

   

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