Alice Streatch
Alice Mills Palmer Streatch (January 3, 1909 - December 2, 1999){{Cite web|last=Streatch|first=Alice Mills Palmer|title=Ancestry.com|url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/21859566:70050|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Ancestry.com}} was an American{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}} composer{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}} who wrote both the words and the music{{Cite book|last=Stewart-Green|first=Miriam|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6815939|title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8498-4|location=Boston, Mass.|oclc=6815939}} for most of her songs.{{Cite book|last=Stern|first=Susan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3844725|title=Women composers : a handbook|date=1978|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-8108-1138-3|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=3844725}}
Streatch was born in Rhode Island to Edith Markland Mills and Burrows Spalding Palmer. She married Harold Siteman Streatch in 1928 and they had twin daughters, Roberta and Alberta. Streatch lived in Rhode Island for most of her life, dying there in 1999. Little is known about her education. Her music was published by Boosey & Hawkes.{{Citation|title=Autumn night|date=1968|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318034981|language=English|oclc=318034981|access-date=2021-10-29}} Her compositions, all for voice, include:
- Autumn Night (women’s chorus and piano; music by Ron Nelson; text by Alice Streatch){{Cite journal|last=Department of Music, University of Richmond|date=2008-11-02|title=University Women's Chorale and Schola Cantorum|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs/462|journal=Music Department Concert Programs}}{{Cite book|last=Agency|first=United States Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XnddNwAI_OkC&dq=alice+streatch+composer&pg=PA68|title=Catalog of Published Concert Music by American Composers|date=1964|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}
- “Charley is My Boy Friend”{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDchAQAAIAAJ&dq=alice+streatch+words&pg=PA465|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|date=1959|language=en}}
- “Prayer of Thanksgiving”{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzghAQAAIAAJ&dq=alice+streatch+poet&pg=PA1533|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|date=1959|language=en}}