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:
Two performances of “Playing for our lives” by the Cassatt String Quartet:
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1)The Cassatt String Quartet will perform the work on April 22 at Shaarei Tikvah, Scarsdale, in a concert commemorating Yom Hashoah and the musicians of the Terezin concentration camp.
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2) The Cassatt will also perform the piece on April 24 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, in a concert featuring works by the faculty of the JTS Cantorial School.
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Performance of chamber works at the Ankara Music Festival, Turkey:
The Grneta Ensemble will perform “Grneta Variations” and “Five Hebrew Songs” on April 11 at the 29th International Ankara Music Festival.
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Listen to excerpt from new one-act opera:
My one-act opera SEED, written with librettist David Simpatico, was performed in concert at Symphony Space in NYC this past June.
Read a program note and hear an excerpt from SEED
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