"[2] Garwood became best known for her operatic adaptation of literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, including The Scarlet Letter and "Rappaccini's Daughter".
[3] Margaret Garwood died on May 3, 2015, in her home in Wyncote, at age 88, from acute heart failure.
Her father, Morse Garwood, was a tax lawyer, and her mother, Miriam Frew, was a feminist housewife.
In Philadelphia, Garwood continued her piano studies while her mother worked for Planned Parenthood, first as a field worker and then as an administrator.
[2] From 1958 to 1970, Garwood would commute from Philadelphia to New York City to study with Joseph Prostakoff, himself a student of Abby Whiteside.
To this end, I studied piano extensively, going to New York every week for 12 years, and took courses that I felt like taking at the Philadelphia Music Academy.
[2] Garwood's compositional process tended to be slow and careful, a trait she learned from her experiences with Romeo Cascarino.
[4] Margaret Garwood died on May 3, 2015, in her home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, at age 83, from acute heart failure.
[1] Most of Garwood's musical output consisted of vocal works, but she also composed a variety of chamber pieces, including:[5][6][7]