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Alumni Profile: Harry Ellis Dickson '29 DP, '30 DP, '87 hon. D.M.

Harry Dickson

Violin Performance

Beloved by Bostonians for his long tenure as Assistant and then Associate Conductor of the Boston Pops, as well as for his witty memoirs, Dickson devoted more than two-thirds of his life to the BSO organization. Besides conducting the Pops, he was a longtime member of the Boston Symphony’s first violin section and he was responsible for founding its successful Youth Concert series, which introduces elementary school children to the sounds of the orchestra.

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