Glenda Goss
Glenda Dawn Goss is an American author and
Education
Goss studied
Career
Glenda Dawn Goss began her teaching career at the
Goss is the author or editor of a number of respected books and articles on topics ranging from Renaissance music to music in the United States and scholarly editing. She has written on and performed the works of George Antheil, Bohuslav Martinů, and Igor Stravinsky.
In the area of Sibelius studies her contributions belong among the most important scholarship on this composer. These include the first scholarly editions of the composer's letters, the first full-scale reception history, and the critical edition of the seminal
Goss is the recipient of numerous research awards from such organizations as
In 2019 the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) awarded Goss the Fredrik Pacius Prize for her wide range of Sibelius research, specifically citing her critical edition of Sibelius's Kullervo symphony and the 2009 biography for presenting "an engaged and clear-sighted view of Sibelius's life work for an international public with a deep understanding of its cultural and political context."
In the years 2016–2019 Glenda Dawn Goss completed a libretto, "All the Truths We Cannot See: A Story of Chernobyl." It has been composed into an opera by Finnish composer Uljas Pulkkis.[2] Delayed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the opera received its world premiere in Helsinki on 15 March 2022, and its American premiere in Los Angeles on April 21, 2022. The performances were the collaborative efforts of the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.
Fellow Musicologist, Howard Pollack, dedicated his article, Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius, and the Making of an American Romantic to Goss. The article appeared in Music Quarterly, vol. 84.[3]
Selected works
- Benedictus Appenzeller: Chansons. Edited with an Introduction by Glenda Goss Thompson. Monumenta Musica Neerlandica, vol. 14. Amsterdam: Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1982.
- Jean Sibelius and Olin Downes: Music, Friendship, Criticism. Boston: ISBN 1-55553-200-4
- Jean Sibelius: Guide to Research. New York: Garland Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8153-1171-0
- Jean Sibelius: The Hämeenlinna Letters. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by Glenda D. Goss. English translations by Margareta Örtenblad Thompson. Espoo: ISBN 951-50-0865-4
- Jean Sibelius: Kullervo. Edited with an Introduction and Critical Commentaries by Glenda Dawn Goss. Jean Sibelius Works, 4 vols. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2005.
- Music and the Moderns: The Life and Works of Carol Robinson. Metuchen, N.J. and London: ISBN 0-8108-2626-7
- Paul Sjöblom. Finland from the Inside. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Glenda Dawn Goss. Helsinki: NewBridge Press, 2000. ISBN 951-98534-0-5
- Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland. Chicago and London: ISBN 0-226-30477-9
- The Sibelius Companion. Edited by Glenda Dawn Goss. Westport, Conn.: ISBN 0-313-28393-1
- Vieläkö lähetämme hänelle sikareja? Sibelius, Amerikka ja amerikkalaiset. Trans. from the English into Finnish by Martti Haapakoski. Helsinki: ISBN 978-951-0-35517-6
Radio series
- Sibelius and America. YLE (Finnish National Radio), 2008.
- Three Programs on American Music. YLE (Finnish National Radio), 1999.
- The Music of Jean Sibelius. Programs for "A Note for You." National Public Radio, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994.
References
- ^ Sibelius, whom I love and adore. Times Literary Supplement, Joseph Horowitz, March 15, 1996
- ^ See https://www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/all-the-truths-we-cannot-see-a-chernobyl-story/
- JSTOR 742563
External links
- Goss homepage: [1]
- Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
- The Sibelius Society of Finland: [2]
- Caliber Journals of the University of California Press: [3]
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