Scranton Philharmonic Orchestra program for "Nevada"

Born in New York City in 1905, Ulric Cole spent her childhood in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, both professional musicians, begin to give her instruction in piano when she was five years old. Shortly after she began to compose piano compositions, some of which later appeared as a book of children's teaching pieces. At 18 she went to New York, where she studied advanced counterpoint with Percy Goetschius and piano with George Boyle at the Institute of Musical Art. The following year she was awarded two fellowships at the Julliard Graduate School, studying composition with Rubin Goldmark and piano with Josef Lhevinne. After three years at Julliard, she went abroad for two years, living in France and Spain. Returning to New York, Cole studied another two years with Rubin Goldmark, at which time she wrote her first String Quartet, a Suite for Trio and Divertimento for String Orchestra and Piano.

Among her best-known published works are her Sonata for Violin and Piano, Quintet for Piano and Strings, Divertimento for String Orchestra and Piano, and three "Metropolitones" for piano. Manuscript works include her Two Sketches for String Orchestra, a Suite for Trio, two Sting Orchestra, a Suite for Trio, two String Quartets and a second Sonata for Violin and Piano.

Nevada was one of two pieces for orchestra completed by Cole in 1949.

The Mr. and Mrs. William Scranton mentioned are probably Senator and later Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, who was stationed in Reno during World War II "in connection with the Air Transport Command," and his wife, Mary Lowe Chamberlain.