Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz

Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (born 1928) is 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.

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 b
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.Composer's page at http://www.amc.net/GladysSmucklerMoskowitz.
*''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 Songs of Passion'', for piano, flute, cello, and voice; on poems by Cheryl Yuzik

References

1928 births
20th-century classical composers
21st-century American composers
21st-century classical composers
American women classical composers
American classical composers
American folk singers
American music educators
American women music educators
Living people
20th-century American women singers
20th-century American composers
Brooklyn College alumni
20th-century American women composers
21st-century American women composers
20th-century American singers

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