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American composer James Myron Cohn, 93, a member of Local 802 since 1950, died on June 12 in Queens after a long illness. Born February 12, 1928, in Newark, New Jersey, Mr. Cohn was a resident of Douglaston, New York, along with his wife Eileen who survives him. A funeral service was held June 13, at Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapel in Forest Hills, followed by a committal service at Beth El Cemetery in Paramus, New Jersey.
After pursuing lessons in piano, violin, and composition as a young man, Mr. Cohn attended Juilliard where he was a student of Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar. He earned two degrees in music composition and later pursued postgraduate studies with Ruth Anderson at Hunter College.
Mr. Cohn served as a musicologist for ASCAP from 1954 to 1984, and was also the inventor of electronic devices that could be applied to keyboards or fingerboards in order to control pitch, intonation, volume and vibrato. In 1998, he was initiated into the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity as a National Arts Associate by the Tulsa Oklahoma
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COMPOSITION 1953 : Ninth Prize
James Cohn was born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey, and took violin and piano lessons there. Later he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in Composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950. He is married, and has lived and worked for many years in New York City. He was initiated as a National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota (International Music Fraternity) (SAI) in the Tulsa Oklahoma chapter in 1998.He has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works, and his catalog includes 3 string quartets, 5 piano sonatas and 8 symphonies. Some have won awards, including a an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony introduced the composer's Symphony No. 3 and Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger, and his opera The Fall of the City received its premiere in Athens, Ohio after winning the Ohio University Opera Award.
He has had many performances of his choral and chamber music, and world-wide use of his music commissioned for
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James Cohn
American composer (1928–2021)
For the U.S. federal judge, see James I. Cohn.
James Cohn (February 12, 1928 – June 12, 2021) was a Newark, New Jersey-born American composer. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950.[1][2]
He wrote solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works, among them 3 string quartets, 5 piano sonatas and 8 symphonies. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale).[2]
His Symphony No. 3 and Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger" were premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Paul Paray.[3] The Detroit Free Press observed in the Symphony No. 3 "an economy of means . . . but no yielding of inventiveness or imaginative composition. Indeed, the work throughout is marked strongly by individuality, and comes as
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