Beth Anderson (composer)

She told a reporter for The New York Times in 1995 she named the form based on this definition of the word: "A swale is a meadow or marsh where a lot of wild things go together.

Liscomb taught Anderson the rules of counterpoint, enabling her to compose simplistic traditional music.

Bob Ashley, director of the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, upon hearing the performance, urged her to stay there and study.

"[6] She married the computer book author Elliotte Rusty Harold on July 28, 1995, one year after they met at a potluck dinner held by the New York Macintosh Users Group.

A 1995 The New York Times feature story on Harold's wedding called her both old-fashioned and conventional and observed, "She giggles often, as lightly as wind chimes.