Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Composer, pianist, and conductor, Coolidge (1913-1981) graduated from the Winsor School in Boston in 1932, and studied at Boston University and New England Conservatory of Music with Quincy Porter. In the late 1930s several of her works were performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler. During the war years, she was manager of the Army and Navy Officers Housing Bureau established at 12 Arlington Street in Boston. She was also conductor of the Junior League of Boston Orchestra during the early 1940s. Commissions have included American Mosaic for the American Wind Symphony, and The Blue Planet for the World Wildlife Fund. After a concert tour in Europe in 1963, and subsequent visits to Moscow, Warsaw, and Tokyo, she was invited by Aram Khachaturi︠a︡n to return to Moscow in 1970. A concert consisting only of her works was presented by the U.S.S.R. Union of Composers, an honor not previously accorded any other American composer. In 1976 an album entitled American Reflections was released by Vox, believed to be the first album devoted solely to symphonic works by an American woman. She was married to Joseph R. Coolidge, writer, editor, and lyricist.. }
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- catalog description "Composer, pianist, and conductor, Coolidge (1913-1981) graduated from the Winsor School in Boston in 1932, and studied at Boston University and New England Conservatory of Music with Quincy Porter. In the late 1930s several of her works were performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler. During the war years, she was manager of the Army and Navy Officers Housing Bureau established at 12 Arlington Street in Boston. She was also conductor of the Junior League of Boston Orchestra during the early 1940s. Commissions have included American Mosaic for the American Wind Symphony, and The Blue Planet for the World Wildlife Fund. After a concert tour in Europe in 1963, and subsequent visits to Moscow, Warsaw, and Tokyo, she was invited by Aram Khachaturi︠a︡n to return to Moscow in 1970. A concert consisting only of her works was presented by the U.S.S.R. Union of Composers, an honor not previously accorded any other American composer. In 1976 an album entitled American Reflections was released by Vox, believed to be the first album devoted solely to symphonic works by an American woman. She was married to Joseph R. Coolidge, writer, editor, and lyricist.".