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Elizabeth Carroll Glenn (October 28, 1918April 25, 1983) was an
American
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violinist and music educator.
Early years
Glenn was born in
Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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in 1918. She began studying violin under her mother’s guidance when she was four and continued her studies in
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia is the capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-largest city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city ...
, with Felice de Horvath, who, at the time was teaching at the
University of South Carolina. At age 11, Glenn moved to New York to study with
Edouard Déthier at the
Juilliard School
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through a cooperative program with the
New Lincoln School
The New Lincoln School was a private experimental coeducational school in New York City enrolling students from kindergarten through grade 12.
History
New Lincoln's predecessor was founded as Lincoln School in 1917 by the Rockefeller-funded Gener ...
, an experimental K-12 program operated by
Teachers College, Columbia University
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. She graduated from Juilliard at age 15 with the faculty scholarship award, and subsequently continued graduate studies at Juilliard.
Career
Carroll Glenn won the
Naumburg Violin Competition in April 1938 and, as part of her prize, the
Walter W. Naumburg Foundation sponsored her post-
Juilliard
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New York debut recital at the
Town Hall
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on November 7, 1938. Her performance at Town Hall resulted in her winning the Town Hall Young Artist Award on April 11, 1939 — presented annually by the Town Hall Endowment to an artist under thirty years of age who gave the most outstanding performance in the prior year. Two more awards followed: the
National Federation of Music Clubs
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Award and the Schubert Memorial Award.
She debuted with the
New York Philharmonic
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under
Artur Rodziński
Artur Rodziński (2 January 1892 – 27 November 1958) was a Polish-American conductor of orchestral music and opera. He began his career after World War I in Poland, where he was discovered by Leopold Stokowski, who invited him to be his assista ...
on December 14, 1941, performing the Sibelius
Violin Concerto
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, with critical success. During her 1942–1943 season, Glenn was featured in 21 orchestral concerts throughout North America.
She married pianist
Eugene List
Eugene List (July 6, 1918March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher.
Early life
Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) ...
in 1943, and they concertized together in 1946, when the U.S. State Department sponsored their first European tour. Glenn and List attracted vast audiences during the 1946 summer concerts of the
Philadelphia Orchestra
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at the
Robin Hood Dell and during 1948 and 1949 concerts of the New York Philharmonic at
Lewisohn Stadium
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History
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.
Glenn and List were strongly interested in offbeat, rarely performed, and contemporary music, including the double concertos of
Giovanni Battista Viotti
Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italia ...
and
Anis Fuleihan, and the Duo Sonata by
Franz Liszt
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, which they rediscovered. Glenn gave the premiere of
Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007) was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist.
Career
Imbrie was born in New York City and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Par ...
's Violin Concerto (which she later recorded) and revived
Eugène Ysaÿe
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".
Legend of the Ysaÿe violin
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's Sonata for two violins.
By 1961, Glenn had made over 90 appearances as soloist with major symphony orchestras, an all-time record for a soloist of her years.
In 1963, Glenn became Artist in Residence at the
University of North Texas College of Music
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, and also taught at
Temple University
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, the
Interlochen Center for the Arts
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In ...
, and the
Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman.
It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...
(1964–1975). From 1975 until her death, she divided her teaching between the
Manhattan School of Music
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and
Queens College
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. In 1974 she and List founded the Southern Vermont Music Festival in Manchester. Her last concert tour, in 1981, was to the People's Republic of China, where, in addition to performances, she gave master classes at the Peking and Shanghai conservatories.
She died in 1983 in New York, aged 64.
Glenn was admired as the foremost woman violinist of her generation. Her playing had “an ingratiating lyric quality and a communicative charm, though there was a core of strength and determination that belied her youthful appearance. Her tone was sweet and pure...; her technique was secure in a vast repertory.”
Miss Glenn’s violin was the Dragonetti-Walton Guarneri "del Gesù", 1742.
[https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/property/?ID=43830] It was considered the "twin sister" of Heifetz’s famous Guarneri.
Notable tours
* In the fall of 1962,
Paul Freeman, conductor at the
Eastman School of Music
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It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...
embarked on an extensive tour of Poland with Glenn. The tour, sponsored by the
US State Department
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and the Polish Art Agency, had Freeman conduct concerts with the orchestras in
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
,
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
,
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...
,
Poznań
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, Warsaw, and
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...
.
Family
Eugene List and Carroll Glenn had two daughters, Ola Allison List (born 1950) and Norma Rachel List (born 1956). Allison was married to Joseph Gerard Werner, a pianist with the Rochester Philharmonic who had studied at Eastman with Eugene List. Rachel, a dance choreographer and university professor, is married to Michael Sansonia, also a musician.
Selected discography
*
:
Eugene List
Eugene List (July 6, 1918March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher.
Early life
Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, where his father Louis List (originally Lisnitzer) ...
, piano, Carroll Glenn, violin
:
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
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History
The WKO was founded in 1946, and its first artistic directors were Franz Litschauer, Heinrich Hollreiser, Pa ...
,
Ernst Märzendorfer
Ernst Märzendorfer (26 May 192116 September 2009) was an Austrian conductor.
Märzendorfer was born in Oberndorf bei Salzburg. He studied with Clemens Krauss at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and was appointed as first conductor of the Graz Opera i ...
, conductor
:
Westminster
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The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Bu ...
WST-17166
References
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American classical violinists
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Juilliard School alumni
University of North Texas College of Music faculty
Manhattan School of Music faculty
Eastman School of Music faculty
Interlochen summer faculty
Temple University faculty
Queens College, City University of New York faculty
Musicians from South Carolina
Texas classical music
20th-century classical violinists
Women classical violinists
20th-century American male musicians
20th-century American violinists