Judith Dvorkin

b. 1928, USA, d. 24 July 1995, NY, USA. A composer, lyricist and songwriter, Dvorkin released the majority of her music beneath the pseudonym Judy Spencer. She appreciated a mixed and prolific profession, which started among the songwriters for the kids’s television program Captain Kangaroo. Most likely her most widely known melody was ‘Soft Summer months Air flow’, which set up itself being a radio regular that achieved several million has in her life time. She composed a musical play, Cyrano, that was performed on the Brooklyn Academy Of Music and off-Broadway. Aswell as her one-act opera for kids, What’s INSIDE A Name, she also published commercially available traditional pieces, such as for example Three Characters, John Keats To Fanny Brawne, Maurice: A Madrigal and Suite For Violin And Clarinet. Before dying of malignancy at age 67, she led the professions of several youthful composers, while her function has been contained in two American music anthologies: J.T. Howard’s Our American Music and M. Stewart-Green’s Ladies Composers’ Work.