Composers Posters & Prints Index, “Co...-”
for the music and social studies classrooms, theme decor for office, studio or home.

Eric Coates
George M. Cohan
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

John Coltrane
Will Marion Cook

Aaron Copland
Noel Coward

Eric Coates
b. 8-27-1886; Hucknell, Nottinghamshire, England
d. 12-21-1957; Chichester, Sussex

Eric Coates was a composer of "light music” (a style of a less serious nature than Western classical music), and a viola player.

• Music of Eric Coates, CD

George M. Cohan
b. 7-3/4-1878; Providence, RI
d. 11-5-1942; NYC

Cohan, considered the “father of American musical comedy”, was an entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, director, and producer, and known as “the man who owned Broadway” in the decade before World War I. Cohan started his career performing vaudeville with his family. In the biopic musical Yankee Doodle Dandy James Cagney played George M. Cohan.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
b. 8-15-1875; London, England
d. 9-1-1912 - pneumonia

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, often called the “African Mahler”, was born in London to an English mother and Sierra Leonean Creole father. He studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford, collaborated with Edward Elgar, and set some of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems to music. Coleridge-Taylor's most famous work is probably his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast; he was also a highly regarded teacher and conductor.

• Black History posters

John Coltrane
b. 9-23-1926; Hamlet, NC
d. 7-17-1967; NY (cancer)

Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane worked in bebop and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He organized at least fifty recording sessions and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.

• A Love Supreme, CD
• Black History posters

Will Marion Cook
b. 1-27-1869; Washington, DC
d. 7-19-1944

Composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. Among his notable works is In Dahomey (1903), the first all-Black musical on a major Broadway stage.

Cook was a student of Anton Dvorak.

• Black History Posters

Aaron Copland
b. 11-14-1900; Brooklyn, NY
d. 12-2-1990

Aaron Copland is known as the “dean of American composers” for his style of balancing American folk tales and modern music. One of Copland's best known works was the ballet “Rodeo”; he was also commissioned to write “Appalachian Spring”.

Noel Coward
b. 12-16-1899; Teddington, London, England
d. 3-26-1973; Firefly Estate, in Jamaica (heart failure)

Composer, playwright, director, actor and singer Noel Coward is remembered for his wit and flamboyance.

• The Last Time I Saw Paris, MP3