Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz
Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz
Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz began her musical career as a singer, graduating from Brooklyn College, City University of New York with B.A. and M.A. degrees in Music. Under her professional name Gladys Young she toured the United States, Europe, and Israel, as a folk singer-instrumentalist, accompanying herself on guitar, auto-harp, 300-year old lyre, and Arab drum. As a composer Ms Moskowitz has written music which glorifies the human voice, using classical, folk, and jazz elements to create beautiful "drama in music." She has also written the libretto for two chamber operas and a two-act music drama. Her satirical chamber opera, "Chicken Little The Sky Is Falling" (based on the children's story) was premiered by the Bluegrass Opera and Orchestra in Lexington, Kentucky. "The Fountain of Youth," a Chamber Opera (based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment") received a grant for a workshop performance and was also awarded a special commendation by the Nancy Van de Vate International Opera Competition for Women. "The Masque of the Red Death," a Renaissance-style Music Drama in two acts, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe received a premiere Halloween performance by the Suliivan County Dramatic Workshop, South Fallsburg, New York. Arias from her operas have been performed in New York City, and at concerts with the Delaware Valley Chamber Orchestra. The composer's dramatic settings of Art Songs for voice and piano by American poets have been performed in New York City, at universities, and in Europe. Her poignant setting of the anti-war poem "Grass" by Carl Sandburg was sung by the Belgium soprano Francoise Vanhecke in New York City and at concerts throughout Europe. "Three Love Songs" on poems by Sara Teasdale, for soprano and piano were sung by Siri Howard at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall , NYC. Among her later compositions "Three Songs of Passion" for soprano, flute, cello and piano captures emotions the poet experiences in her love affair, from the joy of "Life Sentence," to the sensual pleasure of "Utopia,"ending with the death of her beloved in "Manic Screaming."NOTE: For perusal scores, please contact the composer.
Time and Tide (Syd Charlow)
Year: 2018
Duration (in minutes): 3:25
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Score PDF: time_tide_8-31-19-5.pdf
Masque of the Red Death, A Music Drama
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): 38'39; & 43'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral, musical theater
Score PDF: masque_of_the_red_death-act_i_w_pages_removed-5.pdf
Text PDF: notes_for_masque_of_the_red_death_chamber_opera-5.pdf
Description: A music drama based on the Edgar Allan Poe story.
One Act version (38:14)
Two Act version (43:35)
(Includes the Four Poe love songs listed separately in the catalog of works)
Four Poe love songs
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice, mezzo soprano
Score PDF: bridal_ballad_mezzo_sop-pno-5.pdf
Description: Four love songs from the musical drama, The Masque of the Red Death
Romance (bar, sop duet, pno, 3:41)
I Saw Thee (tenor aria, pno, 1:46)
Bridal Ballad (sop or mezzo aria, pno, 3:14)
To Helen (sop, ten, bar trio pno, 2:48)
Three Songs of Passion (Cheri Yuzik)
Year: 2009
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any saxophone, any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, mezzo soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice
Description: "LIFE SENTENCE" A flowing flute added to voice and piano creates a
sensuous feeling of everlasting love..followed by the passion of
sexual desire in "UTOPIA... A Tango of Love". In "MANIC SCREAMING," the
singer cries out in pain at the loss of her beloved. Her anguish is
captured by the piano in dissonant intervals and repetitive motion of
sixteenth notes, echoed by the cello reflecting her turbulent
emotions.
Life Sentence (sop/mezzo w/ fl or ten sax, 1:41)
Utopia… A Tango of Love (sop/mezzo, pno, 1:25)
Manic Screaming (sop/mezzo w/cello 1:11)
Chicken Little, The Sky Is Falling
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 35:55:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra, young audiences
Instruments: baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano
Score PDF: cl_p1-64-5.pdf
Description: A satirical chamber opera (based on the children’s story). Audio features the Bluegrass Opera & Orchestra.
(PDF Score of opera is for pno/vocal)
Three Love Songs on poems by Sara Teasdale
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Joy (2:00)
Advice to a Girl (2:23)
Gifts (1:30)
Psalm 23
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 3:07
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: oboe
Description: A dramatic and moving lyrical interpretation of the psalm for solo voice with
instrumental accompaniment. (Audio features tenor Marshal Cooper)
Grass (Sandburg)
Year: 2004
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Score PDF: grass_sandburg-5.pdf
Description: Sop and piano (2:12) or
Ten with chamber orchestra (2:52)
Art song on poem by Sandburg
Fountain of Youth
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 50:16:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: baritone voice, bass voice, piano, soprano
Score PDF: fountain_of_youth_pno_voc_score_smaller-5.pdf
Description: Based on the story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Four old people are given the opportunity to drink water from the Fountain of Youth and to become young again. BUT of course as the saying goes (and the story) If we had the chance to live our lives
over again, we would probably make the same mistakes. (Audio 3 features the full audio). In "I Was a Prosperous Merchant" the baritone bemoans his fall from a successful (unscrupulous) merchant to poverty. "I Have Wasted my Best Years" the tenor sadly (nostalgically) recalls his lustful past.
I was a prosperous merchant
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 3:40
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: A baritone aria from the chamber opera The Fountain of
Youth
I Have Wasted My Best Years
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 2:56
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: Tenor aria from the chamber opera The Fountain of Youth
Sun (Sonia Buckley)
Year: 2000
Duration (in minutes): 1:24
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, mezzo soprano
Playful Trio
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 2:54
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: woodwind trio
Description: "A PLAYFUL TRIO" or CATCH ME IF YOU CAN a short lively piece with
bouncy rhythms and dissonant intervals conjures up a picture in music
of the composer's two little daughters, Melody and Donna, played by
the bassoon and clarinet as they try to catch their more agile friend
Nancy played by the flute, in an active game of tag.
Time and Tide (Syd Charlow)
Year: 2018
Duration (in minutes): 3:25
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Score PDF: time_tide_8-31-19-5.pdf
Masque of the Red Death, A Music Drama
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): 38'39; & 43'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral, musical theater
Score PDF: masque_of_the_red_death-act_i_w_pages_removed-5.pdf
Text PDF: notes_for_masque_of_the_red_death_chamber_opera-5.pdf
Description: A music drama based on the Edgar Allan Poe story.
One Act version (38:14)
Two Act version (43:35)
(Includes the Four Poe love songs listed separately in the catalog of works)
Four Poe love songs
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice, mezzo soprano
Score PDF: bridal_ballad_mezzo_sop-pno-5.pdf
Description: Four love songs from the musical drama, The Masque of the Red Death
Romance (bar, sop duet, pno, 3:41)
I Saw Thee (tenor aria, pno, 1:46)
Bridal Ballad (sop or mezzo aria, pno, 3:14)
To Helen (sop, ten, bar trio pno, 2:48)
Three Songs of Passion (Cheri Yuzik)
Year: 2009
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any saxophone, any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, mezzo soprano, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor voice
Description: "LIFE SENTENCE" A flowing flute added to voice and piano creates a
sensuous feeling of everlasting love..followed by the passion of
sexual desire in "UTOPIA... A Tango of Love". In "MANIC SCREAMING," the
singer cries out in pain at the loss of her beloved. Her anguish is
captured by the piano in dissonant intervals and repetitive motion of
sixteenth notes, echoed by the cello reflecting her turbulent
emotions.
Life Sentence (sop/mezzo w/ fl or ten sax, 1:41)
Utopia… A Tango of Love (sop/mezzo, pno, 1:25)
Manic Screaming (sop/mezzo w/cello 1:11)
Chicken Little, The Sky Is Falling
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 35:55:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra, young audiences
Instruments: baritone voice, bass voice, mezzo soprano, piano
Score PDF: cl_p1-64-5.pdf
Description: A satirical chamber opera (based on the children’s story). Audio features the Bluegrass Opera & Orchestra.
(PDF Score of opera is for pno/vocal)
Three Love Songs on poems by Sara Teasdale
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Joy (2:00)
Advice to a Girl (2:23)
Gifts (1:30)
Psalm 23
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 3:07
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: oboe
Description: A dramatic and moving lyrical interpretation of the psalm for solo voice with
instrumental accompaniment. (Audio features tenor Marshal Cooper)
Grass (Sandburg)
Year: 2004
Duration (in minutes): various
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Score PDF: grass_sandburg-5.pdf
Description: Sop and piano (2:12) or
Ten with chamber orchestra (2:52)
Art song on poem by Sandburg
Fountain of Youth
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 50:16:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: baritone voice, bass voice, piano, soprano
Score PDF: fountain_of_youth_pno_voc_score_smaller-5.pdf
Description: Based on the story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Four old people are given the opportunity to drink water from the Fountain of Youth and to become young again. BUT of course as the saying goes (and the story) If we had the chance to live our lives
over again, we would probably make the same mistakes. (Audio 3 features the full audio). In "I Was a Prosperous Merchant" the baritone bemoans his fall from a successful (unscrupulous) merchant to poverty. "I Have Wasted my Best Years" the tenor sadly (nostalgically) recalls his lustful past.
I was a prosperous merchant
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 3:40
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: A baritone aria from the chamber opera The Fountain of
Youth
I Have Wasted My Best Years
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 2:56
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: Tenor aria from the chamber opera The Fountain of Youth
Sun (Sonia Buckley)
Year: 2000
Duration (in minutes): 1:24
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, mezzo soprano
Playful Trio
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 2:54
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: woodwind trio
Description: "A PLAYFUL TRIO" or CATCH ME IF YOU CAN a short lively piece with
bouncy rhythms and dissonant intervals conjures up a picture in music
of the composer's two little daughters, Melody and Donna, played by
the bassoon and clarinet as they try to catch their more agile friend
Nancy played by the flute, in an active game of tag.