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Readers ofNotes My Life with Music will discover that few people have the energy, vision, and talent Evelyn Swensson has. The author traces her musical beginnings from Woodstock, Virginia, through her girlhood in Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee, and as a college student at Hollins College. In her fast-paced, enjoyable narrative, Evelyn recalls how she met inspirational musical personalities (like MGM star Kathryn Grayson and Broadway star Mary Martin), and icons of American music (like folk music anthologist, John Jacob Niles). Evelyn began her musical career producing and conducting while raising her family with her Duponter husband. Wherever she went, Mrs. Swensson produced musical waves. She describes a serendipitous encounter with Chick Laird shortly after arriving in Wilmington, Delaware and how he opened the way for her next three decades of conducting, and composing for the OperaDelaware. Evelyn s life as a musical midwife ended in 1993 when she transformed Oliver Butterworth s The Enormous Egg into a children s opera. She recounts with a wonderful collage of photographs two decades as composer working with acclaimed writers, producers, and talented young performers. During this time, she created music for and conducted many celebrated works, including Gian-Carlo Menotti s The Boy Who Grew too Fast, Norman Juster s The Phantom Tollbooth, Lucy Maud Montgomery s Anne of Green Gables.

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Evelyn Swensson is a triple threat (and treat) in the world of music--composer, lyricist, and librettist. I've been privileged to collaborate with her on four successful musicals, and I am delighted that she is putting her 'life in music' into a book that is sure to be well worth reading. --Joseph Robinette

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Evelyn Swensson is a world-renowned figure in the realm of children's opera, having written and conducted several world premiers, including The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth, The Boy Who Grew Too Fast by Gian-Carlo Menotti, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster, and All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

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