Molly Bishop Luther

 (1927 – 1980)

Molly Bishop Luther - Composer

She had all the good things in life. Family. Beauty. Education. Friends. Music was her greatest passion. At her core she was a composer. She needed music to survive. Yet her talent went largely unrecognized. This website is an attempt to bring her the attention she deserved but did not receive in her lifetime.

It is not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the (wo)man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends her/himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if (s)he fails, at least (s)he fails while daring greatly, so that her/his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

From “Citizenship in a Republics” speech at the Sorbonne, Paris • April 23, 1910 (Updated to apply to women and men)