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Stanley Harper (né Stanley Theodore Wisser; 2 September 1921 – 29 June 2016) was an American virtuoso classical harmonica artist, arranger, and composer.^[1]^[2] He died June 29, 2016, in a home for the elderly in New Jersey. He raised the popularity of classical harmonica by influencing composers to write for the instrument and by transcribing serious classical works, himself. Through his virtuosity, he widened the recognition of classical harmonica in solo, chamber, and major orchestral settings.

Career history

Harper began his professional harmonica career in 1935, at age 14.^[3]^[4] IN 1941, he went professionally for a short while by the name Ted Stanley. He went on to perform and record nationally on radio, television, record, theaters, and film until 2015. In the mid to late 1930s, Harper performed with The Harmonica Scamps and Three Harpers, both based in New York City. He apparently only began using the name Stan Harper after World War II. Over the years, he has performed with other renown harmonica players and a range of entertainers and artists, including Eddie Shu (Shulman), Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Hal David, Werner Klemperer, Sam Wanamaker, and Leon Kirchner.^[5]

Up until the death of Charley Leighton, Harper was a regular member of a harmonica jam session held every Tuesday at 3 PM at Charley Leighton's apartment in New York City. In addition to Leighton, regulars included Charles Spranklin (Charles Edward Spranklin; born 1932), William Galison, Randy Weinstein, Stanley Silverstone, Gregoire Maret, Phil Caltabelotta, and Rob Paparozzi.

Selected discography

LPs and CDs

Singles

Publications

Notable broadcast and live performances

Filmography

Harper's surname as a hamonica namesake

Hering Harmonicas, hand maker of diatonic and chromatic harmonicas, located in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, started producing in 2009 a popular model bearing Harper's name: The Stan Harper Chromatic 56, a three-octave, 14-hole instrument with 56 brass reeds sealed by a pearwood body bolted to a hardwood comb with chrome-plated cover plates, mouthpiece and slide assembly.

Selected published music

Popular culture

Family

Stanley Theodore Wisser grew up in a Jewish home and was the youngest of six born to a Ukrainian-born American father, Abraham Wisser (né Konvisser) (1879-1955), and Moldovan-born American mother, Rose (née Kramer; 1885-1950) — his father was born in Nizhyn, Ukraine, and his mother in Briceni, Moldova. His mother came from a family of cantors.

Harper had been a widower of Era Maria Tognoli (1919–2011),^[13]^[14]^[15] a 1940s opera soprano who, in 1959, founded the Metro Lyric Opera Company in Allenhurst, New Jersey, and for 52 years (until her death), directed it. Harper and Tongoli were married March 17, 1964, in Asbury Park, New Jersey.^[16]

References

Notes

1. ^¹"Polka Label Head Walter Dana Dies," Billboard, March 25, 2000, pps. 10 & 85
2. ^¹Be of Good Cheer: Memories of Harmonica Legend Pete Pedersen, by Jaine Rodack (born 1944), AuthorHouse (2006); {{oclc|136773114}}; {{ISBN|9781425960063}}; {{ISBN|1425960065}}
3. ^¹"Blow Me Down, It's Father! The Best Harmonica Player," New York Post, August 26, 1937, pg. 8
4. ^¹"Rex Weber Discovers Ex-GI Harmonicist," Brooklyn Eagle, December 19, 1945, pg. 11
5. ^¹Who's Who in America ("Tognoli, Era M." is in Vol. 2), Marquis Who's Who; {{issn| 0083-9396}}:53rd ed., 1999 (1998); {{oclc|40048997}}:54th ed., 2000 (1999); {{oclc|42920692}}:55th ed., 2001 (2000); {{oclc|45204099}}:56th ed., 2002 (2001); {{oclc|48556900}}:58th ed., 2004 (2003); {{oclc|53934007}}:59th ed., 2005 (2004); {{oclc|56976043}}:60th ed., 2006 (2005); {{oclc|62401678}}
6. ^¹Who's Who of American Women ("Tognoli, Era M."), Marquis Who's Who; {{issn|0083-9841}}:26th ed., 2007 (2006); {{oclc|429406965}}
7. ^¹Who's Who in the East ("Tognoli, Era M."), Marquis Who's Who; {{oclc|0083-9760}}:26th ed., 1997–1998 (1996); {{oclc|36144490}}:27th ed., 1999–2000 (1998); {{oclc|40493812}}:28th ed., 2000–2001 (2000); {{oclc|47808981}}:29th ed., 2002 (2001); {{oclc|48860498}}
8. ^¹"Era Tognoli Married to Harmonica Artist," Red Bank Register (New Jersey), March 18, 1964, pg. 23 (retrieved July 19, 2016; newspaper digitization jointly by the Middletown Township and Red Bank Public Libraries ({{url|http://rbr.mtpl.org/rbr/}}); webpage hosted by the New Jersey State Library)
9. ^¹International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory: In The Classical and Light Classical Fields (12th ed.), 1990–1991 ("Helen Wheaton Benham"), David Michael Cummings & Dennis Keith McIntire (born 1944) (eds.), International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England (1990); {{oclc|28065697}}
10. ^¹Who's Who in American Music: Classical ("Helen Wheaton Benham"), Jaques Cattell Press (ed.), R.R. Bowker (1983); {{oclc|10206087}}
11. ^¹"Music & Dance: Stan Harper," New York Magazine, October 22, 1984, pg. 189
12. ^¹Verso from the LP, The Artistry of Stanley Harper (recorded after 1966)
13. ^¹[https://books.google.com/books?id=4JD9fio-iLkC&pg=PA297 Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers: The Evolution of the People's Instrument,] by Kim Field, First Cooper Square Press (1993), pps. 9, 15, 61, 55, 93, 245, 286, 297–300 (bio), 342; {{OCLC|28292843}}
14. ^¹"Stan Harper: Believes the Harmonica is Much Misunderstood," by Cheryl A. Kosturko (born 1960; later known as Cheryl Holbert), Asbury Park Press, October 14, 1984, Sec. G, pps. 1–2 (retrieved July 19, 2016, via {{url|www.newspapers.com}})
15. ^¹"Music Men," Ripley's Believe It or Not, King Features Syndicate (distributor), Tyrone Daily Herald (Tyrone, Pennsylvania), January 13, 1989, pg. 14