Scarlet Letter composer has died

Scarlet Letter composer has died

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norman lebrecht

May 06, 2015

Margaret Garwood, who turned Hawthorne’s novel into an opera for Philadelphia, has died at 88.

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  • noochinator says:
    June 20, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    She was a great composer of vocal music. She’s got a Dutch Wikipedia page but not an Anglo-American one. Below goes to the Ariel Ensemble perf’ing her ‘Six Japanese Songs’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukTe663NDY

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