John Michael CooperApr 24, 20217 min readTHE PROBLEM WITH PROGRAMS (Part 3)Florence Price’s First Symphony, the 1933-34 World’s Fair, and Three Tribbles (corrected) In Part 1 of this three-part post, I suggested...
John Michael CooperApr 6, 20219 min readTHE PROBLEM WITH PROGRAMS (Part 2)Florence Price’s First Symphony, the 1933-34 World’s Fair, and Three Tribbles In the first part of this post I talked about the context...
John Michael CooperApr 1, 20217 min readTHE PROBLEM WITH PROGRAMS (Part 1)Florence Price’s First Symphony, the 1933-34 World’s Fair, and Three Tribbles Never in my career of writing did I expect that one day I...
John Michael CooperMar 7, 20213 min readTHE BEAUTY OF BLACKNESSFlorence B. Price’s “Night” (Text by Bessie Mayle) The poetry, music, and other artworks of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Black...