Current Officers of the Institute:
- President - Harvey Glickman
- Vice president - Lisa McDonough
- Treasurer - Nina Glickman Nathani
- Vice president - Peter Glickman
Sylvia Glickman (1932-2006),
President of the Hildegard Institute 1992-2006
Sylvia Glickman, New York born musician, was awarded bachelor's and master's degrees in Performance from The Juilliard School and an L.R.A.M. in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London. A Fulbright Scholar, she received the Hecht Prize in Composition from the Royal Academy and the Loeb Prize from Juilliard. She was among the first group awarded a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and has performed to critical acclaim throughout the United States, and in Europe, Israel and Africa. She was honored by Women's Way of Philadelphia in 1986 and received the New York Women Composers annual award in 1995 for "distinguished service in support of concert music composed by women." Glickman's anthology Amy Beach: Virtuoso Piano Music was published 1982 by Da Capo Press and her Anthology of American Piano Music from 1865-1909 is Volume IV in Three Centuries of American Music (G. K. Hall, 1990). With Martha Furman Schleifer she co-edited From Convent to Concert Hall: A Guide to Women Composers (Greenwood Press, 2003), named an "outstanding title" by Choice: Books for College Libraries, the Librarians Journal.
Her own compositions, for large and small instrumental and vocal groups, have had many performances in the United States and abroad and a CD of her music "The Walls Are Quiet Now: A Holocaust Trilogy," was released in 2001. For the Hildegard Publishing Company Glickman prepared editions of Amy Beach's Children's Album, op. 36; Beach's Children's Carnival, op. 25; Beach's Music for Piano, vols. 1 & 2; Beach's Sketches (for piano), Veronika Cianchettini's Two Sonatas for violin, cello and piano; Margaret Ruthven Lang's Le Chevalier (for piano); Clara Schumann's Soirées for Piano, Preludes and Fugues (for piano); Maria Szymanowska's Music for Piano; and American Women Composers: Piano Music from 1865-1915.
In Women Composers: Music Through the Ages she wrote the entries on Marianna d'Auenbrugg (vol.3) and Mana-Zucca (vol.6). She was a reviewer for Choice: Books for College Libraries and served on the Music Panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts from 1989-91. Glickman was the founding President of the Hildegard Publishing Company, a press devoted to furthering the music of women composers, past and present. She was the President of the Hildegard Institute, devoted to research on music by women, and Artistic Director of the Hildegard Chamber Players, a group devoted to playing this repertoire. She served as a board member and Coordinating Editor for the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music 1995-96, and was elected to the Board of Directors of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia in 1998.
More about Sylvia Glickman: A Tribute by Madelyn Gutwirth
Harvey Glickman (b. 1930),
Current President of the Hildegard Institute
Harvey Glickman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where he has served as Acting Provost, Chair of the Political Science Department, Director of African Studies and Co-ordinator of Peace Studies for Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. He has degrees from Princeton and Harvard; he has also studied at Oxford University and London School of Economics; and he has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Hebrew University-Jerusalem, Dar es Salaam University, University of Cape Town, University of Pennsylvania, University of California-Berkeley, and Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.
He has written numerous books, articles, essays, reviews and parts of books on African politics; he has consulted on elements of foreign policy for agencies of the U.S. government and a number of non-governmental organizations. He has served as Secretary of the American Political Science Association, book review editor of Africa Report and editor of ISSUE - A Journal of Opinion (African Studies Association). His most recent publications include "Islamism in Sudans's Civil War," Orbis, 44, 2, Spring 2000; "Nigerian 419 Scams: Prank or Peril?" Canadian Journal of African Studies. 39, 3, December 2005; "The Darfur Crisis," Foreign Policy Research Association E-notes, July 19, 2006 (www.fpri.org)., "Islamism in Sudan," in Barry Rubin, ed., Global Survey of Islamism, M.E. Sharpe, 2007. Although officially retired, he continues to teach courses on American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Genocide, on a term by term basis, at Haverford.
After the death of Sylvia Glickman in 2006, Harvey took over the presidencies of the Hildegard Publishing Company and the Hildegard Institute. After several years the publishing company was sold. It now flourishes under the leadership of Elinor Armsby and continues the mission of expanding our knowledge of music by women composers. Harvey now heads the Institute and is advancing the work commenced by Sylvia, carrying on the work of supporting present women composers and performing their works, as well as those of the past, in part through the efforts of the Hildegard Chamber Players, whose artistic director is Barbara Govatos, of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Nina Glickman Nathani
Nina Glickman Nathani was born and raised in Haverford and Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Lower Merion High School, she received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Since 1986, she has practiced law in Washington, D.C. in both the private and public sectors. She served as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development for several years during the Clinton Administration. Since 1998, she has been associated with Sonenthal & Overall, PC, practicing primarily in the areas of non-profit corporate governance and charitable solicitations, intellectual property, and government contracts and assistance awards. Ms. Nathani resides in Bethesda, MD with her husband, Mehmood, and three sons.
Peter Glickman
Peter Glickman, M.D. has a long-standing interest in music of many genres, inspired probably in utero and thereafter by his mother Sylvia. He has studied classical, jazz, rock, and blues guitar in the past, and although music remains a hobby, he remains engaged in seeking great music all over New York city, where he currently resides and is a practicing musculoskeletal radiologist. He attended Swarthmore College where he majored in Philosophy, then worked as a writer and management consultant for several years before attending Harvard Medical School, and did his residency and subspecialty fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Womens Hospital respectively. He currently practices at Lenox Hill Radiology in NYC and Radisphere, an Ohio-based national teleradiology company. He advises on the rare medical issues facing the Institute, as well as general strategic and operational issues relating to the New York area.
Lisa Glickman McDonough
Lisa Glickman McDonough has considered herself an artist since childhood. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, she was raised in the Philadelphia area. As a child, she accompanied her parents to Israel, Tanzania and South Africa. "The first piece of art I made was a linoleum print in third grade," Lisa says. She carved and printed animals that she remembered seeing in Tanzania as a four-year-old. Since then Lisa has worked in clay, wood, and fiber, and is now concentrating on mixed-media paintings, using collage, acrylic paints, and oil and encaustic pigments. Her work has been shown at a number of galleries, including Boulder Arts & Crafts, Boulder, CO; Blue Horse Fine Arts, Estes Park, CO; and Rabbit Mountain Cottage Furnishings, Lyons, CO.
Lisa holds a B.F.A. in ceramics from the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art). In January 1986, she relocated to pursue her M.F.A. in ceramics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lisa has been involved with Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery ever since. The gallery -- run as an artists' cooperative since 1971 -- offered Lisa part-time work while she was in graduate school. After completing degree work in 1988, (studying with Betty Woodman & Linda Herrit) she maintained her association with the gallery, while continuing her artistic explorations.
In addition to her current position as shareowner & financial manager of the gallery, in 2007, Lisa was elected to the position of director of public relations and advertising. In this capacity, her main focus is to promote and gain exposure for the gallery on a small advertising budget. "We partner with many local nonprofits and other vendors for fundraising events," Lisa says. "The gallery continues to be the cornerstone of creativity on the busy downtown Pearl Street Mall." Lisa's studio is in North Boulder. Close to the foothills she enjoys hiking, biking, birding, and animal tracking.