Description: An Emmy Award winning composer's web site which offers information about Stephen Cohn's career, excerpts of his music and contact information.
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I’m quite sure that my love of music began before I was born. My father, who was an attorney, spent hours every evening sitting at the piano and composing chamber music. He and my mother would take a break by playing violin and piano duets, and sometimes, she would dance while he played - he was delighted by this. So, while in the womb, I’m sure I was picking up their joyful vibrations as they were loving and playing all kinds of music. I guess I never had a chance because the love of music is contagious an
Composing, for me, has a number of dimensions to it, some hard to describe. There is a spiritual, metaphysical aspect as in, where do the ideas come from? What I can be sure of is that they appear within my imagination in various stages of completeness. For me, this is a spiritual occurrence in that something appears from the nothingness of a quiet, receptive mind. However, I won’t argue with anyone about this – I just know that music shows up in my head and I have learned to capture it and develop it. Then
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