Britain, Radie (1903-1994)

US composer. She studied in Chicago and with Marcel Dupré in Paris; piano with Leopold Godowsky, and taught privately in Hollywood. Much of her music is evocative of her native southwest scenery.

Works Orchestral Heroic Poem (1929), Light (1935), Ononaga Sketches (1939), Serenata sorrentina (1946), Cactus Rhapsody (1953), Cosmic Mist, symphony (1962).

Vocal Brothers of the Clouds, for male voices and orchestra (1962); chamber and vocal music.