At age 3, she was recognized as a musical prodigy, and gave her first piano recital at Chicago's Cary Temple Auditorium, performing more than twenty short pieces from memory.
20 (on November 17 and December 1, 1953) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,[4][5] she won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and moved there with her mother.
[6][7] Margaret Harris earned undergraduate and master's degrees, with highest honors, from the Juilliard School.
[8] In 1970, she took over the role of musical director for the Broadway production of Hair, conducting an orchestra of seven older male musicians.
[9][10] "All I care about is that music be good, and that it communicate with a broader public, without special introductions of apologies.
[15] Margaret R. Harris died in 2000 on March 7, aged 56 years, in New York City, after a heart attack.