جاناتان لارسون

Person · Open Library

Works

11

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1960-02-04

Active to

1996-01-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

150,982

Total plays

4,976,649

Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer from New York City who created musicals including Rent (1996) and tick, tick...BOOM! (1990). These musicals seriously tackle issues such as multiculturalism, addiction, sexual orientation and HIV. Rent was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won four Tony Awards. The scores of his shows reveal that he was an apt composer and lyricist. One tick, tick...BOOM! song called "Sunday" is an homage to Stephen Sondheim

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 52,648x

2. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 45,710x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,455x

4. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,516x

5. Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation

   · 2015 · cited 28,117x

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Quotes

• “One of these days I'll find a way / I'll rise above the throng / They'll be amazed at what they see / One of these days someone will say / I knew it all along / One of these days, that's what will be”
• “There is no god, or love, just time / Saying "Do what you will. Nothing's real today" / We are fleeting numbers, and images / Like the liquid crystal digital readout / Floating on the sea of grey.”
• “Come to your senses, defenses are not the way to go / And you know, or at least you knew / Everything's strange, you've changed and I don't know what to do / To get through”
• “In one week I'll be thirty. Three-zero. Older than my Dad was when I was born. Older than Napoleon was when he ... did something that was probably extremely impressive at the time – I'm not a historian. I'm a composer. Sorry, a "promising young composer." I should have kids of my own by now, a career, but instead I've been "promising" for so long I'm afraid I'm starting to break the fucking promise.”
• “6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere a bird chirps. I want to shoot it.”
• “Break of day, the dawn is here / Johnny's up and pacing / Compromise or persevere? / His mind is racing / Johnny has no guide / Johnny wants to hide / Can he make his mark, if he gives up his spark? / Johnny can't decide”

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Key facts

Born

Jonathan David Larson , ( 1960-02-04 ) February 4, 1960, Mount Vernon, New York , U.S.

Died

January 25, 1996 (1996-01-25) (aged 35), New York City , U.S.

Occupation

Composer lyricist playwright

Education

Adelphi University ( BFA )

Years active

1982–1996

Notable works

Rent (1996) Tick, Tick... Boom! (2001) Superbia (not officially published)

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