Background
Glickman, Sylvia Roberta was born on November 8, 1932 in New York City. Daughter of Morris and May (Jacobs) Foodim.
composer music educator pianist publisher
Glickman, Sylvia Roberta was born on November 8, 1932 in New York City. Daughter of Morris and May (Jacobs) Foodim.
She graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1950 (now the Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts). She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London on a Fulbright scholarship.
She earned a bachelor"s degree in 1954 from the Juilliard School of Music, where she also received a master"s degree in 1955 in piano performance. Glickman taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, Haverford College, Princeton University, and Franklin and Marshall College. According to her obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer, in 1988 she founded Hildegard Press, named for 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen, which is now separately owned and still operating.
"Mistress
Glickman was on a mission to unearth female composers who had gone unnoticed in music history. She began churning out catalogs by the hundreds."
"In 1991, she was coeditor with Martha Schleifer of a 12-volume reference, Women Composers: Music through the Ages. She finished the project before her death.
Eight volumes have been published by Boston-based Gale Group.
The four remaining volumes are still to be published."
She also founded the Hildegard Foundation, a non-profit organization which supports programs and prizes aligned with its mission of supporting women in the arts The foundation is still operated by Glickman"s family.
She died in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
Board of directors Montgomery (Pennsylvania) Bicentennial Commission, 1976, Main Line Reform Temple, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, 1985-1989. Director youth festival Tri-County Concerts, 1989-1990. Member American Music Center, Sonneck Society, International Congress on Women in Music, Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania, College Music Society, Pennsylvania Composers Forum (president since 1990), International Alliance for Women in Music (board directors).
Married Harvey Glickman, September 2, 1956. Children: Lisa, Nina, Peter.