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2 unusual facts about Doreen Carwithen


Doreen Carwithen

She also edited for performance the second piano concerto by her husband William Alwyn.

She composed some orchestral music: an overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) (1945) (after the novel by John Masefield); a Concerto for piano and strings (1948); the overture Bishop Rock (1952) and a Suffolk Suite (1964).


The Stranger Left No Card

Incidental music was provided by Doreen Carwithen, though the soundtrack is most remembered for the incessant repetition of Hugo Alfvén's Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (1903).


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