BORN 28 JANUARY
Lily Strickland was born in Anderson, South Carolina, of parents Charlton Hines Strickland and his wife Teresa Hammond Reed. When her father died, the family moved into the home of her grandparents, Judge and Mr. J. Pinckney Reed. Strickland began studying piano at age six and began composing in her teens. She studied piano and composition at Converse College and in 1905 received a scholarship to study at the Institute of Musical Arts (later Juilliard) in New York City.
In 1912 she married Joseph Courtenay Anderson, an English teacher at Columbia University. When Anderson became manager for an American company in 1920, the couple moved to Calcutta, and spent the next ten years in India. Stickland traveled in Africa and Asia, painted and published articles in American magazines. She received an honorary doctorate in music from Converse College in 1924 in recognition of her success as a composer.
The Andersons returned to New York, and in 1948 retired to a farm near Hendersonville, North Carolina. Strickland never had children, and died in 1958.
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Home they brought her by Lily Strickland
FELICIA DONCEANU - ROMANIA
BORN 28 JANUARY
Felicia Donceanu was born in Bacău. She originally planned to be a stage director, but became interested in music and studied composition at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest (now the National University of Music) with Mihail Jora. After completing her studies in 1956, she worked as an editor for ESPLA until 1958, and then for Editura Muzicala until 1966. After leaving her editorial position, she worked full-time as a composer, producing works that have been performed internationally.
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