Doreen Carwithen

[1] Doreen Carwithen was born at 8 High Street, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire on 15 November 1922,[2] in the house attached to her father's bakery and grocery.

[2][4] At the age of 16 Doreen Carwithen began composing by setting Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" for voice and piano.

Her first orchestral work, the overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another), was premiered at Covent Garden by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult on 2 March 1947.

Doreen Carwithen wrote scores for over 30 films, including Harvest from the Wilderness (1948), Boys in Brown (1950), Mantrap (released in the U.S. as Man in Hiding) (1952), The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) and Three Cases of Murder (1955).

[1] Music from the score of the short British Transport Films documentary East Anglian Holiday (1954) was later reused in her Suffolk Suite.

[11] She also wrote a Violin Sonata (1951) and two award-winning (Clements Prize, 1948 and Cobbett Award, 1952) but little-known string quartets, which received their first recordings in 1998,[12] as well as seven solo songs, composed early in her career.