John Michael CooperJun 26, 20235 minRACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (4): CANONICAL SILENCING, AND SOME CONCLUSIONSAs a prefatory exercise for this post, consider the “rule of 4%”: less than four percent of the players in professional orchestras with...
John Michael CooperJun 23, 20237 minRRM – RACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (Part 1 of 4)Dear Constant Reader, I’ve been absent from this blog for a while, partly because I needed to recharge, partly because I’m currently...
John Michael CooperMay 28, 20228 minON HARRY T. BURLEIGH, HIS LIFE AND LEGACIES[This is the fourth in a series of posts of “blogified” short entries from the forthcoming second, enlarged edition of my Historical...
John Michael CooperMay 21, 20225 minON DORA PEJAČEVIĆ (1885-1923) [This is the third in a series of posts of “blogified” short entries from the forthcoming second, enlarged edition of my Historical...
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