Morris Osborn collection of Bonnee Hoy material, circa 1970-1979.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Osborn, Morris, creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoy, Bonnee, 1936-.

Hoy, Bonnee.

Composers--United States.

Composers.

Music.

Musicians.

Publicity.

Women musicians.

Genre:

Audiovisual materials.

Concert programs.

Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 box (.1 linear foot)

Place of Publication:

circa 1970-1979.

Biography/History:

Bonnee Hendricks Hoy (1936-1983) was a composer and musician. Born in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania to Ethel M. Hendricks and Thomas H. Hoy on August 27, 1936, Hoy showed an early interest in music and began formally studying the piano at the age of three under the instruction of Florenza Decimo-Levengood (1903-1994), a musician and longtime instructor at the Philadelphia Musical Academy. Hoy began studying the flute in 1951, clarinet in 1953, cello in 1964, and organ in 1965. She attended the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts and the Fontainebleau Conservatory of Music where she studied under the noted composer and conductor Juliette Nadia Boulanger. She was conferred her doctorate of musical arts from Temple University in 1968. Hoy taught piano and composition at the Philadelphia Musical Academy, St. Basil's Academy and the Settlement Music School. Hoy began composing original music in 1958 and would compose dozens of pieces over the course of her career. Her pieces included works for orchestra, chamber groups, piano, and voice, and ran the gamut from sacred music to musical meditations on poetry, such as her noted "Whitman cycle" (Op. 43, 1979) and her "e.e. cummings congs" (Op. 27, 1973). She was awarded a diploma of merit at the G.B. Viotti International Composition Competition in 1974 and was a finalist in the New York City Opera One-Act Opera Competition in 1980. She performed frequently, primarily in the Philadelphia area, and recorded three albums for Encore Records: Hoy plays Hoy (1972, included in this collection), Hoy music for voice (1974), and A tribute to Violette de Mazia (1974). She received many positive reviews for her thoughtful but accessible style of music and for her abilities as a performer, some of which are included in this collection (Drawer x Folder 2). Hoy died of cancer on November 6, 1983, at the age of 47.

Summary:

This small collection contains the following: Hoy's curriculum vitae as of circa 1979; xerox copies of articles that review or comment on her music, recordings, and/or performances; some limited promotional and informational material for two of her concerts; a spiral-bound manuscript of a composition entitled Sonata No. 2; one typed and one handwritten letter to Hoy's friend and sometime doctor Morris Osborn, notably commenting on her music, her father's sudden death, family strife, and what appears to be an unidentified dissociative disorder; and a signed copy of her 1972 record Hoy plays Hoy, with a handwritten note to Osborn on the back.

OCLC:

1137323394