American classical composer
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]
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