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Yes, she can...

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A celebration of the work of Doreen Carwithen, aka Mary Alwyn, whose archive is also held here at Cambridge University Library. Previously published on the University Library's Music Department blog at MusiCB3 ... Browsing through the  Doreen Carwithen  Archive  the other day, I came across a selection of popular magazines from the mid-’40s-’50s, all of which featured Doreen. As a young woman composing in what was then very largely a man’s world, she got a lot of attention from the press; though most journalists seemed to be less impressed by her work, than the fact that a woman was able to do it at all. The  Dundee Evening Telegraph  was fairly typical of the time in seeming more impressed that Doreen was pretty and curly haired, than that she had recently finished composing her first piano concerto aged just 24. Nevertheless, presumably deciding that any publicity was better than none, Doreen continued to occasionally feature in the popular press, part ...