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Jonathan Cohen ( ) is a British pianist, composer and musical director.〔BBC music magazine British Broadcasting Corporation - 1996- Volumes 4 - 5 - Page 85 "CAROL SING ALONG LONDON CONCERT ORCHESTRA • CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL CHOIR Jonathan Cohen presenter • Special Guest Singer Helen Speirs TV presenter, pianist and composer Jonathan Cohen leads the audience through a ..."〕〔Ruth Inglis ''The window in the corner: a half-century of children's television'' - 2003 - Page 51 "Jonathan did the accompaniments for Jackanory, in which a personality, usually a West End star, read a story to the children. ... Jonathan Cohen says that everyone on Play School had a cut-glass educated accent and used 'received English ..."〕 He is particularly well known for his work on many BBC children's programmes from the 1960s to the 1990s, including ''Play School'', ''Playbus'' (latterly ''Playdays''), ''Play Away'', ''Rentaghost'' and ''Jackanory''. He had joined ''Play School'' in 1967 after graduating from the Royal Academy of Music. He would frequently appear on some of these programmes, like ''Play Away'' where he would front the ''Play Away Band'' and sometime present some of the musical items. A standard item, much loved by children, would be to watch ''K'Too'', the ''Play School'' cockatoo dance along to Cohen's playing. In the latter part of his career he became heavily involved with the ''BBC Schools'' service, most famously co-presenting ''Music Time'', a popular long-running series aimed at primary school children, with Helen Speirs; first aired in 1970, and presented by Cohen from 1983, this series was heavily focused on teaching singing and instrumentation to children. He also had prominent roles on several other BBC Schools series aimed at older Junior children, notably the award-winning series ''The Music Arcade'' (1979-1986), and ''Into Music'', from 1988 and 1989, again aimed at older children, but this time using an "audience participation" approach on the part of the students. In 1991 the last new programmes of ''Music Time'' were broadcast. Although he has not been regularly seen on TV since then, he has performed at the Royal Albert Hall in a show called ''Christmas Carol Singalong'', where he performed his own arrangements of traditional Christmas songs and carols. In 2005 he staged a theatre production called ''Still Playing Away'' alongside former ''Play Away'' presenter Brian Cant which was a trip down memory lane of the 60's, 70's and 80's. ==Selected discography== * ''Singing In The Band, Songs From BBC TV's Play School And Play Away'' Brian Cant Floella Benjamin with Jonathan Cohen and Peter Gosling (LP) * Elisabeth Welch in concert; Jonathan Cohen (piano); Will Hill (drums). 1986 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Cohen (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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