Sadie, Julie Anne (née McCormack)
Sadie, Julie Anne (née McCormack)
Sadie, Julie Anne (née McCormack) (née McCormack) , American cellist and musicologist; b. Eugene, Ore., Jan. 26, 1948. She was educated at the Univ. of Ore. (B.Mus., 1970), Cornell Univ. (M.A., 1973; Ph.D., 1978), and City Univ. (M.A., 1993). She was active as a cellist and viola da gambist, and later as a player on the Baroque cello. From 1974 to 1976 she taught at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. In 1978 she married Stanley Sadie and settled in London, where she has lectured at King’s Coll., Univ. of London (1982) and at the Royal Coll. of Music (1986–88). From 1993 to 1998 she was involved in efforts to save and establish a museum in the house where Handel composed Messiah. In addition to articles and reviews in various journals, she publ. the vols. The Bass Viol in French Baroque Chamber Music (1980), Everyman Companion to Baroque Music (1991), and, with R. Samuel, The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1994).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire