Voices in the Wind: Program notes for April 14 recital: Sylvia Glickman

A featured work on our program for April 14 is Sylvia Glickman’s “Antigone Speaks.”

Sylvia Glickman, who lived from 1932 – 2006, was a pianist and composer who devoted much of her life to promoting the under-represented work of female composers. She founded The Hildegard Institute, named for another medieval female composer, Hildegarde von Bingen, for this purpose.  She also co-edited a 12-volume reference, Women Composers: Music through the Ages. Eight of these volumes have been published thus far.

For additional program notes about her composition “Antigone Speaks” and about Kassia, the 8th century Byzantine nun whose hymn is reference’s in this piece, click here.

You can find more information about this remarkable woman and composer at the Hildegarde Institute’s “People” page, and through this lovely article:  “A Twentieth Century Woman in Music: Equilibrium Against the Odds: The Inspiriting Career of Sylvia Foodim Glickman” provided by her friend Madelyn Gutwirth.