Major Harris

Major Harris III was an American R&B singer, associated with the Philadelphia soul sound and the Delfonics (early 1970s–1974). After left the Delfonics Major Harris have some commercial success as a solo artist.

He may not have recorded for Philadelphia International, but Major Harris still made some classic Philly soul in the mid-1970s. He had been a member of the Delfonics before going solo, and in 1975 he had his big moment in the spotlight when he scored a hit with 'Love Won't Let Me Wait.' While that song is undoubtedly the centerpiece of MY WAY, it's surrounded by plenty of other slices of lush R&B rendered in the classic Philly style.

The name Sir William Harris, KCVO, MA, DMus, FRCM, FRCO conjures up images of grand Royal state occasions at Windsor, coronations in Westminster Abbey and ‘pomp and circumstance’ in general. To many church musicians his name also brings to mind the eight-part anthem Faire is the Heaven, surely one of the greatest pieces of Anglican church music of the last century. A man who was humble, mild-mannered, humorous, deeply spiritual, dedicated to his church work, loyal to his friends, restrained in his organ accompaniments and, sadly, impoverished in his later years hardly seems to be a description of the same man, yet they were indeed one and the same.

No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A flamboyant public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in a blaze of glory, in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.