New Score for Hitchcock Classic

Daniel P Cohen‘s new score for Alfred Hitchcock’s first film as a director, The Pleasure Garden (1925), a commission funded by PRS for Music Foundation, was performed live by the Academy Manson Ensemble from the Royal Academy of Music at Wilton’s Music Hall on 28th and 29th June 2012.

It accomapnied a newly restored print of the film, and was part of the British Film Institute’s The Genius of Hitchcock season this summer.

Daniel P Cohen is a promising young composer who recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, and The Pleasure Garden is his first commissioned score.