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Margaret Garwood

Margaret Garwood was an American composer who is best known for her operas.

Biography
Early life and education Garwood was born in New Jersey on March 22, 1927. Her father, Morse Garwood, was a tax lawyer, and her mother, Miriam Frew, was a feminist housewife. She also had a brother, Charles Garwood, who was born in 1930. There were no musicians in her immediate family, but music was always present in her family through audio recordings and radio broadcasts of the music of Richard Wagner and Ludwig van Beethoven. Her first musical experiences involved playing songs on the piano by ear when she was six years old. At this age, she started to have formal piano lessons with Carol Johnston Sharpe. ==Death==
Death
Margaret Garwood died on May 3, 2015, in her home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, at age 83, from acute heart failure. == Music ==
Music
Notable works Most of Garwood's musical output consisted of vocal works, but she also composed a variety of chamber pieces, including: • '''''Cliff's Edge, Songs of a Psychotic for Voice & Piano''''' (1970) • SquizophreniaHebephreniaPanicBreakdownAsylumHaiku Zoo, For Chorus (1975) • The Whippoorwill, a semi-madrigalThe Scarecrow, a quasi inventionThe Frog, an antiphonal trifleThe Dragonfly, lament for a dead childThe Cow, a fugueThe Cat, a pseudo-oratorioHomages, for Piano Trio (1975) • Rainsongs, for Chorus & Orchestra (Part of Choral Trilogy) (1992) • When that I was a little tiny boyAll day long the rain has fallenWhat lips my lips have kissedSix Japanese Songs, for voice, clarinet & piano (1967) • LonelinessFrom "Essences"IrisDeath SongTwo White ButterfliesSnowFlowersongs, for chorus and orchestra (Part of Choral Trilogy)These children singing in stoneWhen faces called flowers float out of the groundIf there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) haveTombsongs, for chorus & orchestra (part of Choral Trilogy) (1989) • Sea dirgeTell Me Where Is Fancy BredDirge Without MusicSoliloquy for saxophone and piano (1992) • '''''Rappaccini's Daughter''''' (1983, commissioned by the Pennsylvania Opera Theater) • The Nightingale and the Rose (1973, commissioned by the Pennsylvania Opera Company; also performed by Opera Delaware) • The Scarlet Letter (2010, premiered by the Academy of Vocal Arts at the Merriam Theater in Philadelphia in 2010) • The Trojan Woman (1967, commissioned by the Pennsylvania Opera Company) • Joringel and the Songflower (1987) ==References==
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