Galt MacDermot

Galt MacDermot ( born December 18, 1928 in Montreal ) is a Canadian composer.

As a child he received a comprehensive musical education ( recorder, violin, piano). In the early 1950s he studied at the College of Music in Cape Town, South Africa, where he learned to rhythmically especially; He later called this phase as one of its most important. He then worked in his home town first as organist and church musician, and as a composer of jazz and rock songs, and later as bar pianist in New York.

For his piece "African Waltz", he received a Grammy Award. He also composed film music and several musicals, of which Hair was the best known.

In 2006 published the hip hop producer "Oh No " on the highly respected label Stones Throw album "Exodus into unheard rhythms ", which is based on music by Galt MacDermot.

The song " Woo Hah! Got You All in Check" by rapper Busta Rhymes is based on a sample of Galt MacDermots piece "Space".

Work (selection)

Musicals

  • Hair, 1966 Off- Broadway, 1967 Broadway
  • "Two Gentleman of Verona ", 1971 - Tony Award / Best Musical 1972
  • " Via Galactica ", 1972
  • " Dude"
  • "Sun"
  • "The Human Comedy", 1983
  • "The Special", 1985

Film Music

  • "Cotton Comes to Harlem ", 1970
  • " Duffer ", 1971
  • " Rhinoceros", 1975
  • "Hair", 1979
  • " Moon Over the Alley ", 1980
  • " Mistress", 1992
Film score Tony Award for Best Musical Hair (Film) Integrated Authority File
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