| LC control no. | nr 94033531 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML410.H613 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Higdon, Jennifer, 1962- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Atlanta (Ga.) Seymour (Tenn.) Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1962-12-31 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Art music Composition (Music) |
| Affiliation | Curtis Institute of Music |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Flutists Music teachers Composition teachers (Music) Flute players |
| Found in | American flute, 1994: container (Jennifer Higdon) insert (b. 1962) Jennifer Higdon website, Jan. 25, 2007 (b. Dec. 31, 1962, Brooklyn, N.Y.; composer and flutist) Wikipedia, September 9, 2017 (Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of classical music and composition teacher; born in Brooklyn, New York. She spent the first 10 years of her life in Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Seymour, Tennessee; studied flute performance at Bowling Green State University; Artist's Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music; Master of Arts and Doctor of Composition in composition from the University of Pennsylvania; teaches composition at the Curtis Institute where she holds the Milton L. Rock Chair in Compositional Studies; has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony; lives with her wife Cheryl Lawson in Philadelphia) Jennifer Higdon comes out on top, via My big gay ears website, posted Aug 5th, 2009, viewed on September 9, 2017 (Higdon is a 47-year-old out lesbian who lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the Curtis Institute. She met her partner Cheryl Lawson when they were in high school band together in Tennessee) <http://www.mybiggayears.com/archives/jennifer-higdon-comes-out-on-top/> Lesbian wins Pulitzer Prize, via Lipstick & dipstick blog, posted April 12, 2010, viewed on September 9, 2017 (Jennifer Higdon; "she certainly has found a home in Philadelphia, where she and her partner Lawson can often be found walking down the street hand in hand, attending concerts or going to movies. She said it never occurred to her not to be out and so far it has not hurt her career at all. 'Maybe it's because classical music has a real history with gay male composers,' she says. But, she notes, 'there aren't that many lesbian classical composers.'") <http://lipstickdipstick.blogspot.com/2010/04/lesbian-wins-pulitzer-prize.html> |
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