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Glad Robinson Youse

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Gladys “Glad” Robinson Youse (1898 – 1985), was an American composer. Born in Miami, Oklahoma, Gladys Robinson graduated from Stephens College in 1919 with a music degree, then studied composition with Tibor Serly in New York. She married Clare Youse and the couple settled in Baxter Springs, Kansas, where they raised their daughter, Madolyn (1924-2018), later Mrs. Babcock, who earned her AA degree in 1944 from Stephens College and a Masters of Science Degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. Glad Robinson Youse was a member of ASCAP and served on the board of the Sigma Alpha Iota Foundation in 1971. Youse composed sacred and secular music for solo voice, choir, and piano. Today, the National Federation of Music Clubs sponsors the biennial Glad Robinson Youse Adult Composers Contest, and Stephens College offers a Glad Robinson Youse Scholarship. The Competitions and Awards Division of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs has a Glad Robinson Youse Chair. Her compositions (all with piano accompaniment) include: *April is Forever (women’s choir or soprano) *“Arise My Love” (words from Song of Solomon; for solo voice) *Glorious Easter Morning (mixed choir) *“God’s

Gladys Nordenstrom

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Gladys Mercedes Nordenstrom (May 23, 1924 – July 5, 2016) was an American composer. Life Gladys Nordenstrom was born in Mora, Minnesota. She studied music at the Institute of Fine Arts at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she received bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She studied under Austrian composer Ernst Krenek there and married him in 1950. After completing her studies, Nordenstrom worked as an elementary school teacher until she moved with Krenek to California. In the following years, she accompanied Krenek to visiting professorships in various locations and sometimes collaborated on musical works. After Krenek died in 1991, Nordenstrom was instrumental in founding the Ernst Krenek Institute in 1998 and the private foundation Krems die Ernst Krenek in 2004 in Vienna, Austria. She expended much effort to find ways to promote performances and recordings of Krenek’s music. Nordenstrom died on July 5, 2016, in Palm Springs, California, aged 92. At the time of her death, she was at work on a project to record the complete Krenek piano concertos. Works Selected works include: *Theme and Variations for piano (1944) *No Leaf Is Left for soprano and piano (1945, text

Gladys Rich

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Gladys Rich (26 April 1892 - 18 October 1972) was an American composer and music educator who is best known for her song “American Lullaby.” Rich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ann Walker Low and Ezra Clark Rich. Her family moved to Ogden, Utah, where she was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1901. Rich entertained troops in Paris during World War I. She belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Mu Phi Epsilon. Her compositions were published by Belwin Mills, G. Schirmer Inc., Galaxy Music Corporation, Carl Fischer Music, J. Fischer & Brothers, and Pioneer Music Press, *Messengers of Mercy (text by Minnie D. Warner) *Octavos *Partners *Sitting Home *Street of Little Houses References External links *Listen to American Lullaby by Gladys Rich.

Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz

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Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (January 25, 1928 – May 24, 2024) was an American singer, composer and teacher. She graduated from Brooklyn College with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and worked as a teacher, choir director and composer. As Gladys Young she performed in the United States and Europe as a folk singer. In 2003 her chamber opera The Fountain of Youth, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” won a special commendation at the Nancy Van de Vate International Opera Competition for Women. Her music is performed internationally. Moskowitz died on May 24, 2024, at the age of 96. Works Moskowitz is known for songs and chamber opera. Selected works include: *Grass, on a poem by Carl Sandburg *Chicken Little, The Sky Is Falling! A Satirical Chamber Opera, performed by Bluegrass Chamber Orchestra and Opera, Lexington, Kentucky, 2009. *More than a Voice *The Fountain of Youth, chamber opera *Three Love Songs on Poems of Sara Teasdale: “Joy”; “Advice to a Girl”; “Gifts.” Premiere in New York City, 2008. *Psalm 23, for piano, oboe, cello and voice *The Masque of the Red Death, music drama in two acts after Poe *The Buried Life, for mezzo-soprano and piano *Three Son

Glen Adams

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Glen Adams ( 27 November 1945 – 17 December 2010) was a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York City. Career 1950s to 1960s Adams’ mother was from Kingston and his father from St. Vincent; the two met while working in Curaçao. Adams’ first break in the music business came as a teenager, when he appeared as a singer in a vocal group on Radio Jamaica’s Opportunity Knocks show hosted by Vere Johns. Later performing on the same show as a solo singer which led to appearances on cabaret shows and performances in Kingston and St. Andrews at weekends. Adams’ older sister Yvonne was also a popular singer and he was spotted by Clement “Coxsone” Dodd while rehearsing a song that she had written called “Wonder Thirst”. Coxsone took him into the Federal Recording Studio to record the track in 1960. 1970s Perry and The Upsetters toured the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of Perry’s hit “Return of Django” (and the less successful follow-up, “Live Injection”); returning to Jamaica in 1970. As part of The Upsetters, Adams backed The Wailers during their spell with Perry and Adams did much of the arranging and composed th

Glen Gabriel

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Glen Gabriel is a Swedish composer of films, commercials, and a music arranger, primarily in the field of orchestral scores combined with electronica. He has been nominated for five Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Career Gabriel has made music featured by organisations such as Electrolux, Lipton Tea, Sharp Aquos, US Marine Corps, Pizza Hut, Dr Pepper, 1800 Tequila, Guinness, US Census, US Navy, Elizabeth Arden, Ford, Coke Zero and Gillette. In 2014 one of his works was performed at the Zürich Opera House. Gabriel has contributed to movies including The Game Changers (a 2018 documentary with executive producer James Cameron), Stressed to Kill (2016 movie directed by Mark Savage and starring Armand Assante), and to award-winning recordings by pianist Jennifer Thomas. In 2012 he was nominated by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in the Contemporary Orchestral/Instrumental category. During 2017 Gabriel was credited as composing and conducting strings on the Steelheart release Through Worlds of Stardust, and received a Hollywood Music in Media Awards nomination in the original score independent film category for the Mark Savage movie Purgatory Road. In September 2018 Gabriel was nomi

Glen Vecchione

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Glen Vecchione (born 12 July 1951) is an American composer, lyricist, poet, and writer. Working with the director David Dusing he wrote the music and lyrics to the musical The Legend of Frankie and Johnny. He is the author and illustrator of several non-fiction books for children and young adults; many of them written on science related topics or on children’s games. He has also published poetry for adults in several literary journals. Life and career Glen Vecchione was born in Manhattan on 12 July 1951. An Italian-American, He spent his childhood in New York City, He was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. With David Dusing he co-authored the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical The Legend of Frankie and Johnny which was staged as a limited run in New York City by the Nat Horne Musical Theatre. It opened on April 10, 1981 and closed after 38 performances. The production was directed by Albert Reyes and choreographed by Nat Horne. It toured the United States after the end of its New York run. As an actor he portrayed Felix White in the world premiere of John Twomey’s Teachers’ Lounge at the Laguna Playhouse in 1994. He penned the play Cowboy BO and the Train

Glenn Branca

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Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Life and work Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Branca started playing the guitar at age 15. He also created a number of tape sound art collage pieces for his own amusement. After attending York College in 1966–1967, he started the short-lived cover band The Crystal Ship with Al Whiteside and Dave Speece in the summer of 1967. In the early 1970s, Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston. In 1973, he moved from Boston to London with his then girlfriend Meg English. After moving back to Boston in 1974, he met John Rehberger. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theatre in 1975. Working out of a loft on Massachusetts Avenue they wrote and produced the music/theater piece Anthropophagoi for a two-week run.

Glenn Erik Haugland

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Glenn Erik Haugland (born 29 May 1961, in New York City) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Career Throughout his career, Haugland has primarily focused on works for music theatre and electro-acoustic compositions. Experimentation through performance art, music drama and music theatre for children have also been key components of Haugland’s compositional output. Haugland’s list of works encompasses more than 100 works, including ten operas. In partnership with Heidi Tronsmo and Ståle Tråsdahl, Haugland founded the music theatre ensemble Opera Omnia in 1990. Following more than 30 music theatre productions, Opera Omnia premiered operas PoY! and Hulda og Garborg in 2000/2001. The children’s opera PoY! has seen more than 130 performances throughout Europe, while his chamber opera Hulda og Garborg has been performed a number of times domestically. Haugland has composed commissioned works for ensembles and orchestras including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Domkantori, Raschér Saxofon Quartet, SISU, Den Nationale Scene and Agder Theatre. 2004 saw Haugland being nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize for his chamber opera Hulda og Garborg. In 2007, Haugland was bestow

Glenn Gould

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Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist and broadcaster. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach’s music. Gould rejected most of the Romantic piano literature—Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others—in favour of Bach and Beethoven mainly, along with some late-Romantic and modernist composers. Gould also recorded pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons; Classical composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Brahms; and 20th-century composers including Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Scriabin, and Richard Strauss. He championed Gibbons, whom he called his favorite composer. Gould was also a writer and broadcaster, and dabbled in composition and conducting. He produced television programmes about classical music, in which he spoke, performed, and interacted with interviewers in a scripted manner. He made three musique concrète radio documentaries, the Solitude Trilogy, about isolated areas

Glenn Miller

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Alton Glen “Glenn” Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. Glenn Miller and his Orchestra was the best-selling recording band from 1939 to 1942. Unlike his military unit, Miller’s civilian band did not have a string section, but it did have a stand-up bass in the rhythm section. It was also a touring band that played multiple radio broadcasts nearly every day. Its best-selling records include Miller’s theme song, “Moonlight Serenade”, and the first gold record ever made, “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, a song on the soundtrack of Miller’s first film, Sun Valley Serenade, and the number-one song in the United States on December 7, 1941. The following tunes are also on that best-seller list: “In the Mood”, “Pennsylvania 6-5000” (printed as “Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand” on record labels), “A String of Pearls”, “Moonlight Cocktail”, “At Last”, “(I’ve Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo”, “American Patrol”, “Tuxedo Junction”, “Elmer’s Tune”, “Little Brown Jug”, and “Anvil Chorus”. Including “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, five songs playe

Glenn Schellenberg

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Glenn Schellenberg is a Canadian composer and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Early life and education Schellenberg studied psychology at University of Toronto, where he received a B.Sc.. He went on to obtain a PhD in 1994 in psychology in Cornell University. Career In the 1980s, Schellenberg played keyboards and was the principal songwriter for the synth-pop band TBA, along with Paul Hackney, Steven Bock and Andrew Zealley. and performed live with Martha and the Muffins. Side-projects included The Beds (with Tony Malone) and Anti-Normal (with Tim Guest, Massimo Agostinelli, and Billy Sutherland). Schellenberg composed music for three films directed by John Greyson. For one of these films, Zero Patience, Schellenberg was nominated, along with Greyson, for a Genie Award for Best Original Song for the song “Just Like Scheherazade”. He also composed the theme song (and approximately 50 other songs) for a children’s television show called The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon. His songs on the show were sung by Jackie Richardson, Jackie Burroughs, Eric Peterson, Graham Greene, and Clark Johnson. Schellenberg joined the faculty of the University of Wind

Gloria Coates

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Gloria Coates (née Kannenberg; October 10, 1933 – August 19, 2023) was an American composer who lived in Munich from 1969 until her death. She trained and worked also as actress, stage director, singer, author and painter. She is known for her many symphonies, and also wrote chamber music, and vocal music for large and small ensembles. Her compositions have been performed internationally and recorded by notable orchestras. She ran a concert series for new music in Munich. Her First Symphony “Music on Open Strings” was played at the 1978 Warsaw Autumn and was the first composition by a woman in the musica viva series of Bayerischer Rundfunk. Life and career Gloria Kannenberg was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, on October 10, 1933; Music Coates composed symphonies, chamber music for different ensembles, vocal music and multimedia works. She experimented with vocal works for many voices. Instrumental music Works with orchestra * Symphony No. 1 “Music on Open Strings” (1972-1974) * Symphony No. 2 “Music on Abstract Lines / Illuminatio in Tenebris” (1973/74) * Symphony No. 3 “Symphony for Strings” / “Symphony Nocturne” (1974) * Symphony No. 3, second version (Violin Concerto) (2006) * Sympho

Gloria Roe

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Gloria Ann Kliewer Roe Robertson (5 January 1935 – 20 January 2017) was an American composer, pianist and singer who was best known for her compositions and performances of sacred music. She published and performed as Gloria Roe. Roe was born in Bakersfield, California, to Peter and Sarah Bartel Kliewer. and attended the Hollywood School of Music, Pasadena College (today Point Loma Nazarene University), the Screen Guild School of Music, and Trinity College London. She later married Mr. Robertson and had two more children. Her compositions have been performed by Anita Bryant, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Billy Joel. Roe’s LP records were produced by RCA Victor and Word Records. Her compositions (words and music) were published by Rodeheaver, Hall Mack Company and Word Publications, Inc. and included: Cantata *In the Fullness of Time Hymns *Abiding Love *Be Calm My Soul *Coming Home *Does It Make Any Difference to You *He is Love *His Grace is Sufficient *How Can I Tell You Father *I Am Unworthy of the Price He Paid for Me *Loved Me, Bought Me, Saved Me, Cleansed Me *So Great Salvation Has Won My Heart *Surrender *That’s What He Did for Me *The Greatest of These is Love *Unworthy *Why C

Gloria Wilson Swisher

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Gloria Wilson Swisher (March 12, 1935 – July 23, 2023) was an American composer, music educator and pianist. Biography Gloria Wilson Swisher was born in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle where she received a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, Mills College in Oakland, California, where she earned a Master of Music in composition, and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1960. She studied composition under John Verrall, Darius Milhaud, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson. She was a member of The International Association of Women in Music, the Darius Milhaud Society and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Swisher was awarded the Sigma Alpha Iota Inter-American prize for her composition Salutations for oboe and piano. Swisher was the subject of a 2009 University of Washington dissertation, The choral music of Gloria Wilson Swisher, by Robert Bigley. Swisher taught at Washington State University in Pullman, Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Shoreline Community College (1969–1998) in Seattle, and the University of Washington in Seattle. She was a Professor Emerita