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Galt MacDermot was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of a Canadian teacher and diplomat. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada). He received a Bachelor of Music from Cape Town University, South Africa and made a study of African music his specialty.
GALT MACDERMOT+NEW PULSE JAZZ BAND; QUOTES; HAIR Reviews; Two Gentlemen of Verona Reviews; Cottom Comes to Harlem Reviews; The Human Comedy Reviews; Awards; RESPECT ...
GALT MACDERMOT+NEW PULSE JAZZ BAND; QUOTES; HAIR Reviews; Two Gentlemen of Verona Reviews; Cottom Comes to Harlem Reviews; The Human Comedy Reviews; Awards; RESPECT ...
Galt MacDermot was born December 18th, 1928 in Montreal and received his bachelor’s degree in music from South Africa’s Cape Town University. Three years after moving to New York in 1964, jazz critic and music publisher Nat Shapiro introduced MacDermot to Gerome Ragni and Jim Rado, actors who had just written a provocative play entitled Hair .
Dec 21, 2018 · And to generations of musical theater fans, Galt MacDermot was the guy who looked out of place in a picture on the back of the “Hair” cast recording. MacDermot, who died Dec. 18 at the age of ...
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement.
May 10, 2024 · In a career packed with varying types of compositions, Galt MacDermot was best-known for the music he wrote in the late-'60s Aquarian musical Hair. Born and raised in Montreal, MacDermot was the son of a Canadian diplomat. He studied at Bishop's University, then at the University of Cape Town in South Africa before moving to New York in 1964.
