Amy Aldrich Worth
Amy E. Aldrich Worth (January 18, 1888 - April 29, 1967) was an American composer, choir director, and organist who was born in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Career[]
She studied music with Jessie Gaynor, Frederick Beale, Mary Lyon and Arthur Garbett,[1] and married Harry Worth on July 1, 1915.[2] She taught piano and worked as an organist and choir director in St. Joseph. Later, she directed the Women's Chorus of the Women's University Club in Seattle, Washington,[3] and was a member of the Seattle Society of Composers.[4] In 1955, she served as the Sigma Alpha Iota National Chair of American Music.[5] Her compositions include:
Piano[]
- Gavotte Marianne
- Purple Heather (two pianos)[1]
Vocal[]
- Christ Rises (choir)
- Evening is Hushed
- He Came All so Still (choir)
- Israel
- Little Lamb
- Madrigal
- Mary, the Mother (Christmas cantata; choir)
- Midsummer
- Pierrot (words by Sara Teasdale)[4]
- Sing of Christmas (women's choir)
- Song of Spring[4]
- Song of the Angels
- Time of Violets[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
- ^ "Join Ancestry". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ^ Claghorn, Charles Eugene, 1911-2005. (1996). Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-585-03162-2. OCLC 42329817.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Music and Musicians: Devoted Principally to the Interests of the Northwest. David Scheetz Craig. 1920.
- ^ Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota. G. Banta Publishing Company. 1955.
Categories:
- 1888 births
- 1967 deaths
- 20th-century American composers
- American organists
- 20th-century women composers
- Women organists
- Choral conductors
- Musicians from Missouri
- Musicians from Seattle
- People from Buchanan County, Missouri