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Doreen Carwithen
12+ albums
Classicalcomposer20th Century Classicalbritishbritain
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Doreen Mary Carwithen (15 November 1922 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn. Doreen Carwithen was born in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire on 15 November 1922. As a child she had her first music lessons from her mother, a music teacher, starting both piano and violin with her at age 4. In 1941 she entered the Royal Academy of Music and played the cello in a string quartet and with orchestras. At age 16 she began composing by setting Wordsworth’s Daffodils for voice and piano. Doreen Carwithen composed some orchestral music: an overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) (1945); a Concerto for piano and strings (1948); the overture Bishop Rock (1952) and a Suffolk Suite (1964).[1] She also edited for performance the second piano concerto by William Alwyn, and later became his second wife.[2] At the Royal Academy she entered the harmony class of William Alwyn, who began to teach her composition. Her overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) was premiered at Covent Garden by Adrian Boult in 1947. The same year she was selected by the Royal Academy to train as composer of film music. She wrote scores for over 30 films, including Harvest from the Wilderness (1948), Boys in Brown (1950), Mantrap (1952) (released in the U.S. as Man in Hiding), and East Anglian Holiday (1954). She also scored Elizabeth is Queen, the official film of the coronation of Elizabeth II, and wrote two award-winning but little-known strin
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Suffolk Suite: II. Orford Ness. Allegretto Grazioso
3292Suffolk Suite: III. Suffolk Morris. Ritmico
2033Bishop Rock
1124Sonatina: II. Molto adagio
1125Suffolk Suite: I. Prelude. Moderato
886Suffolk Suite: IV. Framlingham Castle. Alla Marcia
847Suffolk Suite: II. Orford Ness: Allegretto Grazioso
738Suffolk Suite: III. Suffolk Morris: Ritmico
739ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)
6910Piano Concerto: I. Allegro assai
67albums
Carwithen: Concerto for Piano and Strings, Bishop Rock, ODTAA & Suffolk Suite
Carwithen: Piano Concerto / Bishop Rock / Odtaa / Suffolk Suite
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Carwithen: ODTAA, Piano Concerto, Bishop Rock & Suffolk Suite
Doreen Carwithen: Film Music
Carwithen: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & Violin Sonata
Carwithen: Violin Sonata & String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
Neglected Works for Piano
Women Write Music
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Alwyn and Carwithen: Piano Works
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W. Alwyn: Piano Music
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Doreen Carwithen: Concerto For Piano And Strings / Bishop Rock / Odtaa / Suffolk Suite
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Carwithen & Pitfield: Violin Sonatas