Margaret Garwood

Margaret Garwood (March 22, 1927, Haddonfield, New Jersey – May 3, 2015, Philadelphia) was an American composer who is best known for her operas. She turned into composition relatively late in her life, at age 35. Garwood became best known for her operatic adaptation of literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, including The Scarlet Letter and “Rappaccini’s Daughter”. She also composed works for instrumental chamber ensembles, orchestras, and other vocal ensembles. Many of her works were commissioned by the Pennsylvania Opera Theater. Death Margaret Garwood died on May 3, 2015, in her home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, at age 83, from acute heart failure. # Cliff’s Edge, Songs of a Psychotic for Voice & Piano (1970) ## Squizophrenia ## Hebephrenia ## Panic ## Breakdown ## Asylum # Haiku Zoo, For Chorus (1975) ## The Whippoorwill, a semi-madrigal ## The Scarecrow, a quasi invention ## The Frog, an antiphonal trifle ## The Dragonfly, lament for a dead child ## The Cow, a fugue ## The Cat, a pseudo-oratorio # Homages, for Piano Trio (1975) # Rainsongs, for Chorus & Orchestra (Part of Choral Trilogy) (1992) ## When that I was a little tiny boy ## All day long the rain has fallen ## What lips