User:NumberTwoDaughter/Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz

Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz was born in Philadelphia, Pa. January 25, 1928. She began her musical career as a singer, graduating from Brooklyn College with B.A. and M.A. degrees in Music. She performed internationally as a folk singer-instrumentalist, and taught music from elementary school to college level. Her compositions include: "The Masque of the Red Death," a music drama in two acts (Poe), and "The Fountain of Youth," a chamber opera (Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"), which received a grant for workshop performance in 2002 and in 2003 was awarded a a special commendation by the Nancy Van de Vate International Opera Competition for Women. Arias from the opera were performed at concerts accompanied by the Delaware Valley Chamber Orchestra (2003-4). The composer's jazzy little satirical chamber opera, "Chicken Little The Sky is Falling" received a world premiere in August 2009 by the Bluegrass Opera and Orchestra in Lexington, Ky. Her art songs have been performed in New York City, at various universities, and in Europe. In the song cycle, "The Life of a Woman" (2009), the composer has set to music for soprano and piano, or in an arrangement for voice and piano with flute,tenor saxophone (or violin), and cello, eight poems by women writers in a variety of musical styles which dramatically recreate the stages from Childhood Innocence, to Grand Passion, In Love Again, and Life's Song. Ms. Moskowitz is married, has two daughters and two granddaughters. She lives in New York.