BORN 5 JANUARY 1913 - AUSTRALIA
Dulcie Sybil Holland (5 January 1913 – 21 May 2000) was an Australian composer and music educator. Best known for her contributions to music education through her energetic involvement with the Australian Music Examinations Board, Holland has in recent decades gained greater recognition as a composer. She is now regarded by some critics as one of the more significant Australian composers of her generation.
Included among the many prizes Dulcie won for her compositions are ABC/APRA Awards in 1933, 1944, 1951, and 1955; ANZAC Festival Awards in 1954, 1955, and 1956, the General Motors Theatre Award in 1963 and the Henry Lawson Award in 1965. In 1977 she received the AO, and in 1993 was honoured with an Honorary D.Litt. from Macquarie University in recognition of her achievements.
Included among the many prizes Dulcie won for her compositions are ABC/APRA Awards in 1933, 1944, 1951, and 1955; ANZAC Festival Awards in 1954, 1955, and 1956, the General Motors Theatre Award in 1963 and the Henry Lawson Award in 1965. In 1977 she received the AO, and in 1993 was honoured with an Honorary D.Litt. from Macquarie University in recognition of her achievements.
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Piano Trio: I. Allegro non troppo by Dulcie Holland
Elizabeth Swados (February 5, 1951 – January 5, 2016) was an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. Swados received Tony Award nominations for Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. She was nominated for Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Director of a Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, and Outstanding Music, and won an Obie Award for her direction of Runaways in 1978. In 1980, the Hobart and William Smith Colleges awarded her an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.
Ms. Swados was already a talent to watch when, while still a student at Bennington College, she provided the music for Andrei Serban’s adaptation of “Medea” at La MaMa, the downtown Manhattan avant-garde theatre.In 1978 she had a breakout hit with “Runaways,” a musical revue about runaway teenagers that originated at the Public Theatre’s Cabaret and made the move to Broadway, personally earning four Tony nominations. Ms. Swados wrote and directed the play, whose cast was made up of 18 troubled young people she had interviewed while researching broken families. She also composed the music, contributed the lyrics and played guitar offstage.
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Amy Irving from Resilient Souls by Elizabeth Swados
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