Researching Margaret Garwood
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1465 people with the Garwood surname? In that year Garwood was ranked number 2194 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Margaret means "child of light" and is of Persian origin.
Records of Margaret Garwood on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Margaret Garwood and the Garwood Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 2072 people with the Garwood surname in the UK? Garwood is now ranked number 2302 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Margaret Garwood
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, starting to compose after the divorce from her first husband, Romeo Cascarino. She stated that through composition, she had “found her fulfilment” in life. About her late start in composition, she stated that before she was 35, she "...was totally absorbed in becoming a concert pianist at that time, and taught and coached singers, accompanied, played chamber music, played in cocktail lounges, worked with an opera company." 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.
Garwood received a master's degree in Composition from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where her husband Dr. Donald Chittum worked as a professor of world music and music theory. She taught at Muhlenberg College, where she taught students like composer Andrea Clearfield.
Margaret Garwood died on May 3, 2015 in her home in Wyncote, at age 88, from acute heart failure.
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