Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz
Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz née Young (b. 1928) is an American singer, composer and teacher. She graduated from Brooklyn College with bachelor and masters degrees, and worked as a teacher, choir director and composer. She performed in the United States and Europe as a folk singer.[1] [2] 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.[3]
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!, chamber opera
- More than a Voice
- I Am Afraid
- The Fountain of Youth, chamber opera
- Advice to a Girl on a poem by Sara Teasdale
- Joy on a poem by Sara Teasdale
- Gifts on a poem by Sara Teasdale[4]
- 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
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Singer and composer |
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1928 |
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