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ROSEMARY GLYDE, A VIOLIST WHO PERFORMED FREQUENTLY AS A RECITALIST AND WAS A FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK VIOLA SOCIETY, DIED ON TUESDAY AT THE NORTHERN WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER IN MOUNT KISCO. SHE WAS 46 AND LIVED IN GOLDEN'S BRIDGE, N.Y.
THE CAUSE WAS CANCER, SAID JOAN RYAN, HER PUBLICITY AGENT.
MS. GLYDE WAS BORN IN AUBURN, ALA. AND STUDIED WITH LILLIAN FUCHS AND DOROTHY DELAY AT THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL, WHERE SHE RECEIVED A DOCTORATE. SHE MADE HER NEW YORK DEBUT IN 1973, AFTER WINNING FIRST PRIZE IN THE JUILLIARD VIOLA COMPETITION.
MS. GLYDE DEVOTED CONSIDERABLE TIME TO EXPANDING THE COMPARATIVELY SMALL REPERTORY FOR SOLO VIOLA. SHE TRANSCRIBED THE BACH CELLO SUITES AND THE RACHMANINOFF CELLO SONATA FOR HER INSTRUMENT, AND SHE COMPOSED SEVERAL WORKS, INCLUDING A FANTASIA FOR SOLO VIOLA AND A SUITE FOR FOUR VIOLAS. HER REPERTORY ALSO INCLUDED MANY COMTEMPORARY WORKS , AND SHE GAVE THE PREMIERES OF WORKS COMPOSED FOR HER BY RICHARD LANE, BERNARD HOFFER AND JUDITH SHATIN.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, WILLIAM SALCHOW, AND A DAUGHTER, ALLISON SHUMSKY, BOTH OF GOLDEN'S BRIDGE, AND TWO SISTERS, JUDITH GLYDE OF BOULDER, COLO. AND WENDY KLOPFENSTEIN OF MOBILE, AL.
NY TIMES JANUARY 20 , 1994
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Robert Lee Hare
Here is an excerpt from the Americanviolasociety.org, written by Judith Shatin a friend and composer. "Rosemary was, above all, an unselfish musician. She cared not only for her own relationship to music, but about the larger community of performers and listeners. She was founding member and president of the New York Viola Society, whose activities include recitals, lectures, master classes, a variety of outreach programs, and a regular newsletter. She was interested in other violists, both as people and musicians.
Her love of music and her feeling for it became evident at an early age. As a young girl, she went with her family to a farmer's watermelon patch in Alabama. They went into the field and Rosemary picked out a melon. The farmer told her it wasn't a good one and rapped on several before picking one out for her. When he showed her she said, "That's a B-flat watermelon." What a delightful way for her musical family to know that their youngest member had a developed sense of pitch and an innate sense of the music of the world".
George Nicholas Garin
Gayle and I had the good fortune, many years ago of going to Avery Fischer Hall in NYC to hear Rosemary at one of her solo performances. As you can imagine, she was awesome. Nick
Bill Hodgkins
I had the privilege for a few years to play French horn in the Auburn University Orchestra. Many didn't even know we had an orchestra, but among the members for a short while at the same time were Rosemary, Wendy and Judy Glyde, along with their Mom, Dorothy. The Orchestra's conductor was Dr. Edgar Glyde. I've never known a more musically talented and gifted family than the Glydes. Rosemary was special, though....a beautiful person, inside and out....and one of us.