Galt MacDermot
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Born | Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot December 18, 1928 Cape Town University |
Spouse |
Marlene Bruynzeel (m. 1956) |
Children | 5 |
Relatives | Terence MacDermot (father) |
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Years active | 1954–2018 |
Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot (December 18, 1928 – December 17, 2018) was a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theater. He won a
Biography
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Galt MacDermot in 2009. |
MacDermot was born in
It was also during his time at Cape Town where he would meet his future wife, Marlene Bruynzeel, a clarinetist of Dutch descent. They married in 1956 and had five children.[1]
MacDermot won his first
MacDermot moved to
MacDermot had another hit with the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. For that show, MacDermot was nominated for a Tony for best music and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. His later musicals, including Dude and Via Galactica (both 1972) and The Human Comedy (1984), were not successful on Broadway, running 16 performances, 7 performances, and 13 performances respectively.[6]
MacDermot's
In 1979, MacDermot formed the New Pulse Jazz Band, which performed and recorded his original music and was one of the first jazz bands to feature synthesizer.[7] The band played as part of the on-stage band in the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair. MacDermot's oeuvre also includes ballet scores, chamber music, the Anglican liturgy, orchestral music, poetry, incidental music for plays, band repertory, and opera.[3]
In 2009, MacDermot was inducted into the
On November 22, 2010, MacDermot was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by
Death
MacDermot died at his home in
His identical twin daughters and caregivers, Bonnie "Nummy" Jolanthe MacDermot and Sarah "Sassy" Rowena MacDermot, died one day apart in November 2020 at the age of 55, also in
Samples and other use
MacDermot's music is popular with collectors of
Scottish electronica duo Boards of Canada used a loop in their track "Aquarius" (Music Has the Right to Children) which was sampled from MacDermot's song of the same name from the 1979 soundtrack of the film Hair.[12]
As part of his Special Herbs series, rapper
Shows
- My Fur Lady (1957)
- Hair (1967)
- Isabel's a Jezebel (1970)
- Who the Murderer Was (1970)
- Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971)
- Dude (1973)
- Via Galactica (1973)
- The Human Comedy (1984)
- The Special (1985)
- Time and the Wind (1995)
- The Legend of Joan of Arc (1997)
- Sun (1998)
- Blondie (1998)
- The Corporation (1999)
- Gone Tomoro (2009)
Discography
(excluding cast albums and soundtracks)
- Art Gallery Jazz (1956)
- African Waltz (1960)
- The English Experience (1961)
- Galt MacDermot by Arrangement (1963)
- Shapes of Rhythm (1966)
- Hair Cuts (1969)
- Woman is Sweeter (1969)
- Galt MacDermot's First Natural Hair Band(1970)
- The Nucleus (1971)
- Ghetto Suite (1972)
- Salome Bey Sings Songs From Dude (1972)
- The Highway Life (1973)
- Take This Bread: A Mass in our Time (1973)
- Memphis Dude (1973)
- La Novela (1973)
- The Karl Marx Play (1973)
- The Joker Of Seville (Trinidad Theatre Workshop Original Cast Album)(1974)
- New Pulse Jazz Band (1979)
- O Babylon! (1980)
- Pulse On! (1981)
- New Pulse Jazz Band III (1983)
- Boogie Man (1985)
- Lost Conquest (Conquista Perdida) (1986)
- Purdie as a Picture (1994)
- Reflections of a Radically Right Wing Composer (1992)
- The Thomas Hardy Songs (1997)
- El Niño (1998)
- Up from the Basement Volumes 1 & 2 (2000)[15]
- Corporation (2000)
- Spotted Owl (2000)
- Live In Nashville (2000)
- Foolish Lover (2001)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar in Song (2001)
- Waiting For The Limo (2003)
- In Film (2004)
- Asian Suite (2005)
- Many Faces of Song (2009)
- Sun (2009)
- The Sun Always Shines for the Cool (2014)
- Air & Angels (2017)
References
- ^ a b c Seelye, Katharine Q. (December 18, 2018). "Galt MacDermot, Composer of the Rock Musical 'Hair,' Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ "Galt MacDermot". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived February 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d "MacDermot's Official Website". Galtmacdermot.com. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
- ^ Harris, Tracy (March 2, 1998). "The HAIR Pages". Archived from the original on October 27, 2009.
- ^ "Who the Murderer Was". Curvedair.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
- ^ "Galt MacDermot". IBDB. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ^ "Galt MacDermot - New Pulse Jazz Band".
- ^ "2010 SOCAN Awards". SOCAN. Archived from the original on October 17, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- ^ "Galt MacDermot, Composer of Hair, Dead at 89". Playbill. December 17, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
- ^ Lubin, Gail (November 10, 2020). "Twin sisters who shared 'inseparable existence' die one day apart, at age 55". Staten Island Advance. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020.
- ^ Kinos-Goodin, Jesse (July 21, 2021). "How Canadian composer Galt MacDermot unwittingly became rap royalty". CBC. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ^ Rogerson, Ben (January 27, 2011). "The 16 best uses of a sample ever". MusicRadar. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ^ "MF Doom". Metalfacedoom.com. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
- ^ "Oh No". Stones Throw Records. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
- ^ "Galt MacDermot – Complete List of Works". Galtmacdermot.com. Archived from the original on September 25, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.