Barthelson, Helen Joyce Holloway (fem) 18.may.1900-1.dec.1986 USA Washington, Yakima - New York, Scarsdale
pianist, conductor, teacher piano, 1918 studied at Oakland Technical High School California, 1921 graduated from the University of California Berkeley, studied piano with Elizabeth Quaile, Helene Barere and Harold Bauer, composition with Julius Gold, Otto Cesana and Roy Harris, orchestration with Nicolas Flagello, conducting with Antonia Brico, 1920 as musician residing in Contra Costa California, 1922-1935 member of the Arion Trio with Josephine Holub violin and Margaret Avery cello, 1924-1935 staff pianist NBC radio San Francisco and KGO Oakland, 1936-1938 conductor of the Women's Symphony New York, 1944-1967 with Virginia Hoff Greenburg co-founder of the Hoff-Barthelson Music School Scarsdale New York, 1976 she resided at the home of her deceased husband 15 Central Park West New York, 1982 at 45 Popham Road Scarsdale ; daughter of blacksmith George Jackson Holloway (Illinois 6.apr.1861-18.jul.1918) and Myrtle Mary Lee (Minnesota 15.aug.1874-6.mar.1948 Los Angeles) ; 23.dec.1921 in Oakland Martinez she married builder Harold Charles Barthelson ; after 1942 she married Benjamin Morris Steigman (Sweden, Gotland 11.jun.1889-21.jul.1974 died Hannover Germany while residing in New York City) who was 1928-1942 still single and residing at 15 Central Park West and principal of the High School of Music and Art in New York and writer on Wagner ; she never used the name Steigman, even her death is recorded as Barthelson

Title Parts


[] Symphony. Orchestra. 1939 [] 1 - Allegro con moto
[] 2 - Andante
[] 3 - Finale. Allegro energico
[] Concerto. 2 Pianos and orchestra
[] Concerto. Oboe and chamber orchestra
[] Savannah overture. Orchestra
[] Weather report suite. Orchestra
[] The first Palm Sunday. Narrator, soloists, choir, instruments and organ
[] Spin, spin (Pennsylvania dutch folksong). Soloists and orchestra. 1967
[] The forty-niners. Soloists, choir and orchestra
[] I'm only nineteen. Women's choir and piano
[] The pilgrims. A Thanksgiving chorale. SATB Choir and piano. 1953
[] Christmas 1620. SSA Choir
[] Benjamin Franklin. SATB Choir
[] Buffalo Bill. SATB Choir
[] Daniel Boone. SATB Choir
[] Father Junipero Serra. SSA Choir
[] Betsy Ross. SSA Choir
[] Pocahontas. SSA Choir
[] Rock-a my soul. Three-part chorus of treble voices with piano accompaniment. 1956
arr Joyce Barthelson

[] Ding dong, merrily on high. SSA Choir. 1956
arr Joyce Barthelson

[] Feathertop. Opera. New York 26jan1966
libretto Helen Joyce Holloway after Hawthorne

[] Chanticleer. Opera. 1966, New York 15apr1967
libretto Helen Joyce Holloway
ASCAP Award 1967

[] Greenwich Village 1910. Opera. Scarsdale 20dec1969
libretto Helen Joyce Holloway

[] The king's breakfast. Opera. New York 26feb1973
libretto Maurice Baring after Catherine Parr

[] The devil's disciple. Opera. 1976, White Plains 4nov1977
libretto Helen Joyce Holloway after George Bernard Shaw

[] Lysistrata. Opera
libretto Helen Joyce Holloway

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