Ruth Shaw Wylie

Ruth Shaw Wylie (born June 24, 1916 in Cincinnati / Ohio ; † January 30, 1989 ) was an American composer and music teacher .

Ruth Shaw Wylie graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a PhD in music education in 1943 . Until 1949 she was Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Missouri in Columbia, after which she taught at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1965 she founded the University Improvisation Chamber Ensemble , with which she toured the American Midwest.

In 1969 she retired from teaching and initially lived as a composer in Salt Lake City, and from 1973 in Estes Park / Colorado. She composed around sixty works, including two symphonies and three orchestral suites, three ballets, a flute and a clarinet concerto and numerous chamber music works. In 1975 she received a composition commission from the Michigan Council of Arts to write a piece for the Detroit Women's Chamber Orchestra to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the USA. The result was her only multimedia work, The Long Look Home, with poems and pictures by Jeanne Torosian .

literature

Deborah Hayes: Ruth Shaw Wylie: the composer and her music Mill City Press 2012

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personal data
SURNAME	Wylie, Ruth Shaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1989