Elizabeth AH Green

Elizabeth Adine Herkimer Green (born August 21, 1906 - September 4, 1995 ) was an American music teacher, conductor and composer.

Life

Green received her musical education from her father Albert Green , the director of the Wheaton Conservatory, which she graduated in 1923. She then took viola lessons with Clarence Evans , principal violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and violin lessons with Jacques Gordon , concertmaster of the same orchestra. After graduating from high school in 1928, she and her family moved to Waterloo. Here she taught at East Waterloo High School until 1942 . She directed the school orchestra and was a founding member of the Waterloo Symphony Orchestra , with which she a. a. performed as a violist, cellist, concertmaster and violin soloist. She was also a board member and business manager for the orchestra. In 1939 she received her masters degree from Northwestern University .

In 1942 Green went to Ann Arbor as a teacher for an orchestral program in public schools and built a sixty-piece symphony orchestra at Ann Arbor High School . From 1954 until her retirement in 1974 she taught at the University of Michigan . Even after that, she gave workshops and master classes. In 1995 she honored the Michigan House of Representatives as a world-famous conductor, musician, author and conductor. The Community Foundation of Waterloo / Cedar Falls and Northeast Iowa established the Elizabeth HA Green Scholarship Fund .

Fonts

• Orchestral Bowings and Routines (1949; third expanded edition 1990)
• First Steps in the Galamian Bowing Method (1950)
• The Modern Conductor (1961, sixth edition 1996)
• Musicianship and Repertoire for the High School Orchestra (1962)
• Teaching String Instruments in Classes (1966)
• Increasing the Proficiency on the Violin (1967)
• The Conductor and his Score (with Nicholas Malko , 1975, second edition 1985)
• The Dynamic Orchestra (1987)
• Miraculous Teacher: Ivan Galamian and the Meadowmount Experience (1996)
• Practicing Successfully

Compositions

• Chatterbox Symphonette (1950)
• Hohman for the Strong Class (1959)
• Theme and Variations for Orchestral Bowings (1960)
• Twelve Modern Etudes for Advanced Violinists and Violists (1964)
• Fiddle Sessions (with Livingston Gearhart ) (1967)
• Sinfonia in D (by Karl Stamitz , arrangement) (1970)

swell

• Pioneer High School Orchestras - Elizabeth AH Green; Conductor, educator, composer
• Spoke - Elizabeth Green