The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that composer Margaret Garwood has died at 88 (though it misspells the name of her former husband, Romeo Cascarino).

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150506_Composer_Margaret_Garwood_dies_at_88.html

I hate to say it, but if she had been a man and writing 30, 40 or 50 years earlier, she would have been much better known. I attended the 2010 premiere of her opera, “The Scarlet Letter,” and there was much cattiness and eyeball-rolling, especially among composers of a more modernist bent, but the work would have been in the strike zone, if it had been composed in 1950 and her name had been Carlisle Floyd, Robert Ward or Gian Carlo Menotti.

Here are a couple of excerpts I found posted on YouTube: