Sally Johnston Reid

Sally Johnston Reid (born 1948) is an American music educator and composer.

Biography

Sally Reid was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. She served on the music faculty at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas beginning in 1969 and became Chair of the Department of Music there in 1979. She became Department Chair at Lipscomb University in 2008. She won a composition prize from Mu Phi Epsilon,[1] a number of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards, and first prize at the Fifth International Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Reid served as editor of the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) Journal from 1991–95 and as president of the International Alliance for Women in music from 1999-2000.[2] She appeared in the film The Devil and Daniel Johnston in 2005.[3]

Works

Selected works include:

  • Healing 1986, chamber opera
  • A Carousel Fantasy for brass quintet and synthesized Wurlitzer band organ, 1993
  • Note the Silence for voice and chamber ensemble, 1975
  • Fiuggi Fanfare for saxophone quintet, 1998[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Mu Phi Epsilon Composers & Authors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "Sally Reid". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. ↑ IMDB listing
  4. ↑ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
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