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ALLEN COHEN
DMA in Music Composition - City University of New York Graduate Center
MFA in Music Composition - State University of New York at Purchase
BA in Music and Drama - Ripon College
Office: Dreyfuss 109, M-DBO-01
Telephone: (973) 443-8638
E-mail: alcmusic@fdu.edu
Classes
Fundamentals of Music Theory
Survey of Music: Ancient to 1800
Survey of Music: 1800 to Today
Chorus
Music for the Movies
The Musical, Broadway to Hollywood
Advanced Musical Theater Workshop
Development of American Jazz and Popular Music
Biography
Allen Cohen, who teaches varous music courses
and
conducts the Chorus at FDU, has been a professional composer, arranger,
conductor, vocal coach, and pianist in New York City for years. While
his main love is composing classical music, of which five pieces have
so far appeared on CD, he has also composed songs and arrangements for
Broadway, incidental scores for films and off-Broadway plays, and music
for many radio and television commercials. He has conducted three musicals
on Broadway and many elsewhere. He is also the author of Howard Hanson
in Theory and Practice (Praeger Publishers) and the popular children's humor
book That's So Funny I Forgot to Laugh! (Scholastic), and co-author of Writing
Musical Theater (Palgrave/St. Martins).
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