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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Dorothy Louisa ("Wid") Gipps MBE[1] (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor and educator. She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos and many chamber and choral works.[2] She founded both the London Repertoire Orchestra and the Chanticleer Orchestra and served as conductor and music director for the City of Birmingham Choir.[3] Later in her life she served as chairwoman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.[4]
She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours for services to music.[5]
- ^ Foreman, Lewis (2 March 1999). "Obituary: Ruth Gipps". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ Halstead, Jill (2006). Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-0178-4. Archived from the original on 30 August 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gipps-ruth-1921 [bare URL]
- ^ The Musical Times, vol. 140, no. 1867 (Summer 1999), pp. 8–9
- ^ UK list: "No. 48639". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1981. p. 13.
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