# Arlene Zallman

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**Arlene Zallman** (9 September 1934 – 25 November 2006) was an American [composer](/source/Composer) and [music educator](/source/Music_educator).

## Life

Zallman was born in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia) and graduated from the [Juilliard School of Music](/source/Juilliard_School_of_Music). She received a master's degree from the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania), where she studied composition with [Vincent Persichetti](/source/Vincent_Persichetti) and [George Crumb](/source/George_Crumb). In 1959 she received a two-year [Fulbright Scholarship](/source/Fulbright_Scholarship) to [Florence, Italy](/source/Florence,_Italy), to study with [Luigi Dallapiccola](/source/Luigi_Dallapiccola). She held positions on the faculty of the [Oberlin College](/source/Oberlin_College) Conservatory of Music and [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) and then became a professor of composition at [Wellesley, Massachusetts](/source/Wellesley,_Massachusetts) in 1976.[1]

She received the Marion S. Freschl Award for Vocal Composition, and awards from [Meet the Composer](/source/Meet_the_Composer), the [Mellon Foundation](/source/Mellon_Foundation), the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, and the [Guggenheim Foundation](/source/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation). Her *Three Songs from Quasimodo* won awards from both the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) and the [International Society for Contemporary Music](/source/International_Society_for_Contemporary_Music).[2]

She held fellowships at the [MacDowell Colony](/source/MacDowell_Colony), where she received the Faye Barnaby Kent Fellow. During 2001-2, she was a Fellow at the [Radcliffe Institute](/source/Radcliffe_Institute) for Advanced Study. In 2003 Zallman was a guest composer-in-residence at the Rocca di Mezzo Music Festival in the [Abruzzi](/source/Abruzzi) region of Italy.[3]

Zallman had two daughters. She died in her home in Wellesley in 2006 and was buried in [Amherst](/source/Amherst,_Massachusetts), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts).

## Works

Zallman completed a number of compositions on commission, including *The Trio* in 1999. Her works are published by the Association for the Promotion of New Music and by C.F. Peters.

Selected works include:

- *A Whimsical Offering* piano solo 7 min 1994
- *Analogy* for solo flute 5 min 1971
- *And with Ah! Bright Wings* (G. M. Hopkins) chorus (SATB) and organ 8 min 1986
- *Emerson Motets* for chorus (SATB) 12 min 1985
- *Letters* (Dickinson) for mezzo-soprano and viola 5 min 1996
- *Luoghi* (Places) tenor 14 min 1998
- *Nightsongs I* for violin and piano 4 min 1984
- *Racconto* for piano 8 min 1968
- *Shakespeare Sonnet CXXVIII* (How oft, when thou my music) for baritone and piano 4 min 1980
- *Shakespeare Sonnet XVIII* (Shall I compare thee) for soprano and piano 3 min 1958
- *Shakespeare Sonnets XXXIII* (Full many a morning) & XL (Take all my loves) baritone, 7 min 1979
- *Soliloquium* solo violoncello 5 min 1986
- *Sonnet/Sonata* (Shakespeare CII My love is strengthened) for soprano and piano 7 min 1991
- *The Cigarette Butt Blues* (Pavese: Il blues delle cicche) for women’s voices, 7 min 1991
- *Three Preludes* piano solo 5 min 1979
- *Three Songs from Quasimodo* (Three Italian Songs) soprano, 6 min 1976
- *To a Hurdy-Gurdy* (Corrazzini: Per organo di barberia) for soprano and violoncello 4 min 1975
- *Vox Faminae* (Carmina burana) Song cycle for soprano and piano 23 min 2002[4]

## References

1. ["Music of Arlene Zallman"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101026214656/http://bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9323). Archived from [the original](http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9323) on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2010.

1. Pendle, Karin (1997). [*American Women Composers: Volume 16, Parts 1-2*](https://books.google.com/books?id=MxdhoKIKmnsC&dq=arlene+zallman&pg=PA28). Psychology Press. ISBN 9789057021459. Retrieved 11 November 2010.

1. ["Arlene Zallman, Composer and Professor of Music, Dies at 72"](http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2006/120406.html). Retrieved 26 September 2010.

1. ["Arlene Zellman"](http://www.apnmmusic.org/arlenezallman.html). APNM Association for the Promotion of New Music. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

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