Sally Johnston Reid

Sally Johnston was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, on January 30, 1948, and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. She served on the music faculty at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas beginning in 1969 and became Chair of the Department of Music there in 1979. She became Department Chair at Lipscomb University in 2008. She won a composition prize from Mu Phi Epsilon, a number of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards, Reid served as editor of the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) Journal from 1991–95 She was also the listowner for the International Alliance for Women in Music distribution list. She was a co-editor of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States' newsletter along with Sylvia Pengilly and Mara Helmuth from 1995-1996. She would later become the president of the International Alliance for Women in Music from 1999-2000. Rome’s Vatican Audience Chamber performed her Jesus, Redeemer, Messiah composition as part of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee 2000 celebration. ==Works==

Reid’s work has been performed all over the United States and Europe. Her compositions include music for symphonic band, for chamber ensembles, incidental music, electronic music, vocal music and music for piano. Some of her works combine acoustic and electroacoustic elements. • On a Day of White Trees for mezzo-soprano and B♭ clarinet, 1998 ==References==