Judith Tick Matthews Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Music j.tick@neu.edu 617.373.8537 Expertise American music, music history, twentieth century music, women's history Judith Tick in the Press Article KUNC Early hardship couldn’t muffle Ella Fitzgerald’s joy From early on, music was Fitzgerald’s salvation. It was where she lived. She could lose herself in it and go somewhere else, no matter what was happening around her. Northeastern University music historian Judith Tick imagines the young girl “singing by herself in a corner of a recess schoolyard and looking happy, smiling and laughing.” […] Judith Tick for Northeastern Global News Profiling the “First Lady of Song” Profiling the “First Lady of Song”
Article KUNC Early hardship couldn’t muffle Ella Fitzgerald’s joy From early on, music was Fitzgerald’s salvation. It was where she lived. She could lose herself in it and go somewhere else, no matter what was happening around her. Northeastern University music historian Judith Tick imagines the young girl “singing by herself in a corner of a recess schoolyard and looking happy, smiling and laughing.” […]