At the time, Cohan was a half-forgotten figure, a composer and a performer who had made his name on the stage in the last years of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th, but whose sentimental style had long since been subsumed in a tidal wave of jazz.
One of its leading figures is composer Kurt Schwertsik, who after early immersion in the modernist world of Darmstadt broke away from what he saw as its rigidities to write tonal music.
Despite initial critical barbs leveled at him, Coleman was aided by praise and support from such established figures as composer and educator Gunther Schuller and the New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein.
The wonderful Adagio is the rise and fall of a four-note figure that the composer transforms again and again into something complete and satisfying.
Dread saturates Schnitzler's novel "The Road into the Open," whose central figure, an aristocratic composer, moves through a largely Jewish milieu with chilly detachment, embodying, in Schorske's words, a "value vacuum".
Even such a well-known figure as Bizet, composer of "Carmen", has many pieces that are now little played.French musicians and critics have periodic bursts of activity, attempting to revive French music or stem the flow of outside influences.
The tiny figure of the composer – played by a woman – scampers beneath a puppet of Mother Russia, several storeys high, with shawl and bun, and bosoms as big as barrage balloons.
THREE composers figure on the New World Chamber Ensemble's 3 p.m. recital today at the Hartford Seminary.
Small wonder that this obscure Roman eccentric, who considered himself a "messenger" or "medium," has become a cult figure among younger composers: he makes the eternal new.
Neither composer figured into Counter)induction's survey of Japanese music at the Tenri Cultural Institute on Sunday evening, but the news was generally good: the works, by composers of the last two generations, were cosmopolitan and up to date.
