Joyce Hope Suskind (1928-2017) enjoyed a varied career as composer, performer, and teacher in New York, her native city. After completing her studies at Juilliard as a scholarship student in oboe and voice, Suskind discovered her talent for composing while playing improvisational piano at the Martha Graham School. She received a commission from Lehman College to compose a score for a Balinese dance which was written for gamelan, flute, and percussion. She went on to specialize in vocal music, composing a score for a musical comedy, a revue, a feminist anthem, which was her first published song, cabaret songs, and numerous art songs, most of them set to the poems of WB Yeats. She is known as a composer of art songs, published by Hildegard and American Composers Edition. She passed away at her home in New York City on Sunday, Feb. 26th, 2017.
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| Composer | Title | SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION | Year | |
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | MEMORY TREE |
voice, pf |
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | PASSAGES - Seven Songs for Voice and Piano | voice, piano
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | SHADOW-LIKE GENERATIONS | voice, string quartet, piano
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | SIX STEVENSON SONGS |
High (Medium-High) Voice and Piano; flute |
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | THREE THINGS |
Sop, pf |
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | TWO YEATS SONGS | Voice, string quartet, piano
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | VOICES OF WOMEN |
Sop, pf |
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| Joyce Hope Suskind | WOMAN TO HER LOVER | voice, pf
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