Robert Cohan, 95, Dies; Exported Contemporary Dance to Britain
A New York-born protégé of Martha Graham, he and a rich patron revolutionized dance in the U.K. with a cutting-edge new form.
Robert Cohan in 1962. He was both a dancer and a teacher with the Martha Graham company in New York before revolutionizing dance in Britain.Credit.Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Published Jan. 29, 2021Updated Feb. 1, 2021
Robert Cohan, a New York-born dancer and choreographer who changed the course of British dance by helping to establish an acclaimed contemporary dance company and school in London in the late 1960s, died there on Jan. 13. He was 95.
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Quick, without looking it up, what record label discovered and introduced to the world roots/Americana stars Josh Ritter, Lori McKenna, Crooked Still and Lake Street Dive? With a track record like this and then some, Signature Sounds of Northampton, MA ought to be on the tip of every music fan’s tongue. But I suspect that many in the tribe need to be formally introduced, and a new 25th anniversary anthology makes the perfect calling card.
Over two CDs, amply annotated with history and artist capsules, the new
Golden Age set presents a wide-ranging listening experience spanning classic northeastern singer-songwriters, innovative string bands and idiosyncratic indie-popsters. These 37 artists are unified not by genre but by their crafty riffs on genre, their heady mingling of genre and their pure expressions of genre, depending on the artist involved. The oldest track is an acoustic guitar instrumental from Jim Henry and Brooks Williams back in 1997, and the most recent come
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In March 2020 the concert cancellations began piling up for collaborative pianist Diane Katzenberg Braun, founder and artistic director of Music Street.
Founded in 2013 with award winning graduates and nearly graduated students from Boston’s New England Conservatory, Music Street began with a mission. That was to bring live music performances by accomplished young performers to those who could not easily access them. Their first concerts were in homeless shelters in Boston and Cambridge, vocal concerts and concerts with string players with herself at the piano.
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Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. A Nonesuch Records artist, his album of orchestral works,
Home Stretch, has been hailed for its “playful intelligence and individuality,” (
The Guardian) and of his 2010 debut album for two pianos
Shy and Mighty (performed by himself and duo partner David Kaplan), Alex Ross wrote in
The
New Yorker that “it achieves an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene… more mighty than shy, [Andres] sounds like himself.”
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Pianist/Vocalist/Composer Dawn Clement has established herself as one of the most sought after musicians working today. With her joyful presence, consummate technique and distinctive sound, Clement has gained the attention and respect of musicians, critics and fans through the US and abroad. “In all this world of jazz, there are very few individual voices, no matter what the instrument, but Dawn has come up with a voice that’s unique…” says legendary jazz trombonist Julian Priester.
Denver native, trombonist, and composer Adam Bartczak holds a bachelors in trombone performance from the University of Colorado, a masters in jazz composition from the New England Conservatory, and a doctorate in jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado, where he also taught. In addition to teaching at Metropolitan State University of Denver, he currently performs with a wide stylistic diversity of groups in Colorado, including his own big band for which he comp