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]

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]
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References
  1. Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  2. "Join Ancestry". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  3. 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)
  4. Music and Musicians: Devoted Principally to the Interests of the Northwest. David Scheetz Craig. 1920.
  5. Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota. G. Banta Publishing Company. 1955.
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