Alfred Nohcor

Alfred Nohcor ( Alfred Rochon ; * 1885 in Montreal ; date and place of death unknown) was a Canadian singer (tenor), actor and composer.

Rochon made his debut in 1902 in Sohmer Park in Montreal together with his brother, with whom he also appeared in other theaters in the city in the following years and had great success at the Thêatre National from 1905-06 . Around 1910 he began a solo career under the name Nohcor , an anagram of his surname.

In 1915 he founded his own theater group, which he led for ten years with Henri Rollin , and then alone until the 1940s. They traveled through Canada and the United States with the play La Petite Aurore, l'enfant-martyre , a melodrama based on the true story of a little girl who dies from mistreating her stepmother. The piece has been performed thousands of times in Canada and the United States.

In addition, Nohcor also appeared as Remendado in Carmen (alongside Blanche Gonthier and Honoré Vallaincourt , 1918) and in André Messager's La Basoche at the Théâtre Français (1919). As manager of the Ouimetoscope 1922-23, he worked on vaudeville pieces such as Les Aventures d'Aglé (with Juliette Béliveau and J. Hervey Germain ) with. At the same time he was a member of the troupe of the Théâtre Canadien-Français , which included Raoul Léry , Palmièri , Simone Roberval and Hector Pellerin .

In 1916 he recorded 18 songs by popular French composers for Columbia Records in New York. a. by Henri Christiné , Félicien Vargues , Harry Fragson , Édouard Jouve and Gabriel Desmoulins , including popular titles like L'Amour est un plaisir , Ah! les grandes femmes , La Jolie Loucheuse and Mon épouse est un ange . 1936–37 a series of recordings of Nohcor's own compositions was made on the Starr label, including Mae West en vacances , Ne séparons pas les vieux and Faut pas faire à sa tête . For La Valse de la mariée and Oui! Des bananes, on en a , which Hector Pellerin recorded in the early 1920s, he wrote the lyrics. For some time he directed L'édition Alfred Nohcor , in which he published sheet music for popular songs.

Nothing is known about the later life of Nohcor, who is believed to have died in the late 1950s.

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SURNAME	Nohcor, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rochon, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian singer (tenor), actor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal
DATE OF DEATH	20th century