- Received the Smith College Medal.
- Received the Distinguished Composer of the Year 2000 by the American Guild of Organists.
- Was a Kennedy Center honoree in 1991.
- Served on the Board of Directors of Chorus America. She was their first Director Laureate.
- Graduated from the Juilliard School with a degree in choral conducting.
- Won 14 Grammys.
- Composed over 500 pieces of music, including operas, song cycles, cantatas, choral suites, and anthems.
- Was the primary arranger for the Robert Shaw Chorale for 20 years.
- Recipient of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation Medal in 2015.
- Has five children.
- Awarded the 2014 Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association.
- Awarded six honorary doctorates.
- Was a Fellow of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada.
- Honored by the International Emily Dickinson Society for her choral suite Heavenly Hurt.
- Graduated from Smith College with a double major in organ and composition.
- Studied music theory with Mary Mason at the New England Conservatory.
- In 1985 she founded Melodious Accord.
- To celebrate her 90th birthday in 2015, choral groups worldwide posted performances of her work on YouTube, as part of a project called Alice Is 90.
- Was awarded grants from ASCAP, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the American Music Center.
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