Mr. Creshevsky was also a much-admired teacher. He also taught at the Juilliard School and Hunter College in New York and spent the 1984 academic year at Princeton University. Image Over the years Mr. Creshevsky documented much of his music on record labels that specialized in classical or experimental music. Noah Creshevsky was born Gary Cohen on Jan. 31, 1945, in Rochester, N.Y., to Joseph and Sylvia Cohen. “Since my nature is that of a composer rather than a performer, I never liked spending much time practicing someone else’s composition,” Mr. Creshevsky said in an interview published by Tokafi, a music website.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2020 22:51 UTC