Merle Montgomery
American composer
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Louise Talma
French-American composer
Flory Jagoda
Flory Jagoda escaped the destruction of Sarajevo’s Jewish community and came to the United States after World War II and became an important carrier of a unique musical heritage and also as a composer and arranger of new Sephardic songs.
Ruby Terrill Lomax
Anthropologist who collected American folk music
Barbara Cook
American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last.
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is one of country music’s most creative singer-songwriters.
Amina Claudine Myers
From her early beginnings as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Amina Claudine Myers has gained acclaim as a skilled composer for voice and instruments, often displaying her gospel influences. Her move to New York City in the 1970s led her to prioritize her compositional work and to take on theatrical production projects.
Charlotte Oelschlägel
Though ice skating has been around for centuries, it only came into its current form and fashion in the mid-19th century and was still taking shape as a professional and competitive sport when Charlotte Oelschlägel took up the activity.
Alice A Andrews
American composer and music director
Eileen Donaghy
20th century Irish ballad singer