Glad Robinson Youse

Gladys "Glad" Robinson Youse (1898 – 1985), was an American composer.

Born in Miami, Oklahoma, Gladys Robinson graduated from Stephens College in 1919 with a music degree, then studied composition with Tibor Serly in New York. She married Clare Youse and the couple settled in Baxter Springs, Kansas, where they raised their daughter, Madolyn (1924-2018), later Mrs. Babcock, who earned her AA degree in 1944 from Stephens College and a Masters of Science Degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.[1] Glad Robinson Youse was a member of ASCAP[2] and served on the board of the Sigma Alpha Iota Foundation in 1971.[3]

Youse composed sacred and secular music for solo voice, choir, and piano. Today, the National Federation of Music Clubs sponsors the biennial Glad Robinson Youse Adult Composers Contest,[4] and Stephens College offers a Glad Robinson Youse Scholarship.[5] The Competitions and Awards Division of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs has a Glad Robinson Youse Chair.[6]

Her compositions (all with piano accompaniment) include:[1]

  • A Man Must Have a Song (men's choir)[7]
  • April is Forever (women's choir or soprano)
  • "Arise My Love" (words from Song of Solomon; for solo voice)[2]
  • As Long as Children Pray (women's choir or soprano)
  • "Beatitudes" (soprano)
  • Behold, God is My Salvation (mixed choir)
  • Bless Us, O God (women's choir)[8]
  • Glorious Easter Morning (mixed choir)
  • "God's World" (for one or two unspecified voices)[9]
  • Great is Thy Mercy (mixed choir)
  • He Who Believes in Me (mixed choir)
  • Hear Me Lord (mixed choir or soprano)
  • High Upon a Hilltop (women's choir)[10]
  • Hungry Pagan (mixed choir)
  • "I Knelt at Thy Altar" (soprano)
  • I Placed My Heart Within a Rose (mixed choir)[7]
  • In a Corner of My Heart (for unspecified voices)[11]
  • Let Us Smile (for children)[12]
  • "Little Lost Boy" (soprano)
  • Lovely the Dawning (women's choir)[7]
  • "My Dream of Springtime" (soprano)
  • My Heart is Ever Grateful (women's choir)[13]
  • O, it is Lovely, Lord (women's choir)
  • Perhaps I May (women's choir)[13]
  • "Red Bird" (soprano)
  • Ring Out Ye Bells! Sing Out Ye Voices! (mixed choir)
  • Salute to America (mixed choir)
  • So Near, So Dear (three sopranos)[14]
  • "Some Lovely Thing" (soprano)
  • Song-Trip Around the World (for children)[2]
  • Thirty-Fourth Star (words by Isabel Doerr; for unspecified voices )[15]
  • This Nation Under God (mixed choir)
  • "Thou wilt Light My Candle" (soprano)
  • Why? (women's choir)[16]
  • Winds of the Prairie (women's choir)
  • Wishing (women's choir)[17]
  • (The) World is About Me (for unspecified voices)[18]

References
  1. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. The Music Journal. 1948.
  3. Pan Pipes. G. Banta Publishing Company. 1968.
  4. "PFMC - Home". www.pfmc-music.org. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  5. "Obituary for Madolyn (Youse) Babcock". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  6. "TFMC Leadership". texasfederation. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  7. Office, Canada Patent (1956). The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks.
  8. "South Dakota State University: Open PRAIRIE: Public Access Institutional Repository". openprairie.sdstate.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  9. "SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals". SAGE Journals. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  10. ""High Upon a Hilltop" by Glad Robinson Youse (YouTube)". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  11. "KMOX Pop Sheet Music - I". www.siue.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  12. "Wilson* • Ehret* • Snyder* • Hermann* • Renna* - Growing With Music - Book 2". Discogs. 1967. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  13. "MENC Meeting at the National Education Association Convention". Music Educators Journal. 53 (9): 73. 1967. doi:10.1177/002743216705300922. ISSN 0027-4321. S2CID 221064676.
  14. "So Near, So Dear - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity". www.sai-national.org. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  15. Mechem, Kirke; Malin, James Claude (1962). The Kansas Historical Quarterly. Kansas State Historical Society.
  16. "American String Teacher Official publication of the American String Teachers Association (Founded 1946)". American String Teacher. 5 (2): 4. 1955. doi:10.1177/000313135500500204. ISSN 0003-1313. S2CID 220440818.
  17. "Shop The Bourne Music Catalog". print.bournemusic.com. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  18. Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division.
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