Gerald Cohen, Composer
Cohen composes with a strong sense of tradition--one that embraces Brahms, Bartok and Britten on one hand and his own Jewish heritage on the other. ... a cantor himself, Cohen's songs and his Passover cantata V'higad'ta L'vincha display a linguistic fluidity and a melodic gift that hints at what the Hebrew liturgy might be like today if Britten had changed faiths.
--Ken Smith,
Gramophone Magazine
Gerald Cohen’s music speaks to us through its ability to respond to the personal, translating these emotions through his musical craft into an art that is expressive, important and vitally alive. That is the touchstone of his work, and its connection to a living, ongoing tradition.
--Michael Kannen,
from program notes to CD
Generations: Music of Gerald Cohen
NEWS:
Performance by Borromeo Quartet:
Gerald Cohen’s String Quartet No. 2 will be performed in Taos on July 4 by the Borromeo String Quartet, as part of the Aaron Copland House Borromeo String Quartet Award.
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New violin/piano composition:
Wendy Sharp violin, gave the premiere of Gerald Cohen’s Three Hebrew Songs at Yale University, and will perform it in California on July 3..
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Premiere by the Grneta Duo:
The Grneta Duo performed Gerald Cohen’s “Grneta Variations” for two clarinets and piano, New York City, Thursday, May 27.
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Concert at Columbia University:
“Gerald Cohen and Friends,” a concert Tuesday, April 27 with Cantors Benjie Ellen Schiller, Natasha Hirschhorn, and two Cantorial School Choirs.
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Award for Choral Music:
“The ocean of peace lies ahead of me” for chorus is a winner of the Society for Universal Sacred Music’s Composition contest, and was performed Saturday, April 24 at their 2010 Festival.
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