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Allen Cohen

Well, I really copied this text, but from the mail sent to me by the composer. I didn't know that it has been published.I thought that I could copy it, and rewrite it later, when I have time, but, obviously, I forgot to do that.

Copy of the mail:

Biography and program note

"ALCohen@aol.com" <ALCohen@aol.com> View To:andrijab_music@yahoo.com

Dear Andrija,

Here is a resume and program note. Let me know if you need more information (or less).

Allen

Allen Cohen's work includes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and voice. Currently Associate Professor of Music at Fairleigh Dickinson University, he has also taught at Hunter College, New York University, and Manhattanville College, and has received a Meet the Composer grant and several ASCAP Plus awards. He received a doctorate in composition from the City University of New York, where he studied with Thea Musgrave, Bruce Saylor, and David Del Tredici. His pieces on compact disc include Autumn Morning for orchestra (Vienna Modern Masters), Duo-Partita for cello and guitar (Artek), Grace for piano solo (New Ariel), Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (“Song of Myself”) and Wings of Desire for flugelhorn and piano (Capstone). He has written incidental scores for films and off-Broadway plays, and has arranged dance music for five Broadway musicals. He has also conducted many musical theater productions on Broadway and elsewhere, and has performed extensively as a pianist. He is the author of Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice (Praeger/Greenwood) and the popular children's book That's So Funny I Forgot to Laugh! (Scholastic), and co-author of Writing Musical Theater (Palgrave Macmillan).

SONATA FOR CLARINET AND PIANO (“JOURNEY”)

This piece was inspired by the notion of a journey or quest, which can be found in countless legends and adventure stories, and even in one's own life. In that sense, the first movement represents the blithe, light-hearted setting-out; the second movement the doubts and fears of the nighttime in strange wild places, or the “dark night of the soul”; and the third, the arduous struggle to find a home, whether that means going back or onward.

Musically, the piece is tightly unified thematically: all of the material is derived from the main theme of the first movement. The themes of the second movement are inversions of those of the first, and in the last movement these themes are further transformed and developed.

--Andrija (talk) 21:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

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Musa Qala

Hey BJ. (Is BJ OK?) I've tried to take care of your issues on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Musa Qala and any update would be appreciated. You've done great work reviewing, by the way. Keep it up! Marskell (talk) 05:59, 30 December 2007 (UTC)