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American entertainer, composer and playwright
- United States of America
- singer, composer, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, stage actor, music director, poet, manufacturer, theatrical director, lyricist, record producer, librettist, film producer, dancer, writer
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2022-02-19 09:39:27
Most pieces use the dichotomy between tonality and atonality: I chat to composer Eleanor Alberga about writing music
Eleanor Alberga (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) Last Autumn, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields launched The Beacon Project, a digital offering of educational resources and performance films that shine a light on three beacons of contemporary music: Eleanor Alberga, Sally Beamish, and Errollyn Wallen. The first work to be issued in the project was Eleanor Alberga's Nightscape which was premiered in 1993 and a wind ensemble from the Academy gave the first performance since then in November 2020. I recently was lucky enough to catch up with Eleanor to chat about Nightscape in particular and her career in general, the importance of her Jamaican background plays in her music and we look forward to the premiere of her symphony, Strata next month. Nightscape was a joint commission from the London Mozart Players and the Horniman Museum in 1993 and intended as a pair with Mozart's Gran Partita. Because she was […]
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2021-08-20 17:02:42
George M. Cohan Tonight! – Irish Rep Click... The post Ruth Leon recommends… George M Cohan appeared first on Slipped Disc.
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-31 21:00:00
Robert Cohan, 95, Who Exported Contemporary Dance From The US To The UK
Cohan founded an outpost of Martha Graham’s school in London in 1966, and, a couple of years later, The Place. That venture (including the London Contemporary Dance Group) “initially performed pieces from Graham’s and other choreographers’ bodies of work, but Mr. Cohan soon decided that going forward it would offer only works that had been […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-14 17:05:00
Robert Cohan, Who Brought Contemporary Dance To Great Britain, Dead At 95
“A New Yorker who performed with Martha Graham’s dance company, often partnering Graham herself, Cohan moved to London where, in 1967, he became the first artistic director of the venue The Place, as well as the London Contemporary Dance School and the company London Contemporary Dance Theatre. His partnership with the founder of those organisations, […]
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