Sylvia Glickman
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Sylvia Foodim Glickman was a pianist, composer, teacher, and prominent promoter of music by women composers.
Glickman was born and grew up in New York City
, where her mother enrolled her in music school at the age of 3. She graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1950 (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
). She earned a bachelor's degree in 1954 from the Juilliard School of Music, where she also received a master's degree in 1955 in piano performance. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music
in London on a Fulbright scholarship.
She married Harvey Glickman, a political science professor, in 1956.
Glickman taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, Haverford College, Princeton University, and Franklin and Marshall College.
According to her obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer
, in 1988 she founded Hildegard Press, named for 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen
.
"Mrs. Glickman was on a mission to unearth female composers who had gone unnoticed in music history. She began churning out catalogs by the hundreds. The company now distributes internationally through Presser Music.
"In 1991, she was coeditor with Martha Schleifer of a 12-volume reference, Women Composers: Music through the Ages. She finished the project before her death. Eight volumes have been published by Boston-based Gale Group. The four remaining volumes are still to be published."
She died in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
.
Glickman was born and grew up in New York City
New York City
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, where her mother enrolled her in music school at the age of 3. She graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1950 (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue...
). She earned a bachelor's degree in 1954 from the Juilliard School of Music, where she also received a master's degree in 1955 in piano performance. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
in London on a Fulbright scholarship.
She married Harvey Glickman, a political science professor, in 1956.
Glickman taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, Haverford College, Princeton University, and Franklin and Marshall College.
According to her obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...
, in 1988 she founded Hildegard Press, named for 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Blessed Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and...
.
"Mrs. Glickman was on a mission to unearth female composers who had gone unnoticed in music history. She began churning out catalogs by the hundreds. The company now distributes internationally through Presser Music.
"In 1991, she was coeditor with Martha Schleifer of a 12-volume reference, Women Composers: Music through the Ages. She finished the project before her death. Eight volumes have been published by Boston-based Gale Group. The four remaining volumes are still to be published."
She died in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd is a community in Lower Merion Township which is located on the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia at US Route 1 . It was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but is commonly treated as a single community...
.
Sources
- Anderson, E. Ruth (ed.), "Glickman, Sylvia Foodim", Contemporary American composers: a biographical dictionary (2nd edition), G.K. Hall, 1982, p. 198. ISBN 081618223X
- Miksis, Alyssa K. and Rubinsky, Jane, "Giving a Voice to Women Composers ", The Juilliard Journal, Vol. XVIII No. 5, February 2003.
- Morrison, John F., "S. Glickman, honored musical women", The Philadelphia Daily News, January 19, 2006
- Philadelphia Inquirer, "Pianist, composer S. Glickman", January 22, 2006, p. B5
- Press, Jaques Cattell (Ed.). Who's who in American Music. Classical, first edition. R. R. Bowker, New York 1983.
- Smith, Kyle. Catalog of the music of Pennsylvania composers, Vol. I: Orchestral Music. Pennsylvania Composers Forum, 1992.
- Zaimont, Judith Lang. The musical woman. An international perspective, Vol. III: 1986–1990. Greenwood Press, 1990.