Choral Trilogy
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An important voice in the world of choral composition, Margaret Garwood Ôs music is given sensitive performances by the Portland Chamber Choir and Orchestra.

Margaret Garwood, like many earlier composers, is essentially self-taught. She passed the requirements for a Bachelor's degree in music by examination, and now holds a graduate degree in composition. She is greatly indebted to composers Julia Smith, Louise Talma, and especially Miriam Gideon for their support. While she has written several instrumental chamber works, the majority of her output is for voices, and includes four operas, numerous song cycles, and works for combined chorus and orchestra. Her operas have received fully staged productions in New York, Philadelphia and on the West Coast. They include The Trojan Women, The Nightingale and the Rose, Rappaccini's Daughter, and an opera for children entitled Joringel and the Songflower. She has written the librettos to all her own operas, with the exception of the first one. She is presently working on an opera based on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
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Margaret Garwood, composer
Rainsongs
Portland State Univ. Chamber Choir & Orchestra, Bruce Browne, conductor

Margaret Garwood, composer
Flowersongs
Portland State Univ. Chamber Choir & Orchestra, Bruce Browne, conductor

Margaret Garwood, composer
Tombsongs
Portland State Univ. Chamber Choir & Orchestra, Bruce Browne, conductor

Margaret Garwood, composer
Haiku Zoo
Portland State Univ. Chamber Choir, Bruce Browne, conductor

Margaret Garwood, composer
Six Japanese Songs
Ruth Dobson, soprano, Thomas Stanford, clarinet, Harold Gray, piano

Margaret Garwood, composer
The Cliff's Edge
Ruth Dobson, soprano, Harold Gray, piano

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