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John Michael Cooper
Oct 5, 20243 min read
A FLORENCE PRICE POSTHUMOUS PREMIERE
Moods for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano at the International Florence Price Festival NO ONE has been more assiduous about ensuring that the...
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John Michael Cooper
Sep 2, 20244 min read
REDISCOVERING WILL DIXON AT 145
The latter-day rediscovery of musical and theatrical polymath Will Dixon offers today's world a much-needed opportunity -- and a challenge
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John Michael Cooper
Jun 26, 20235 min read
RACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (4): CANONICAL SILENCING, AND SOME CONCLUSIONS
As a prefatory exercise for this post, consider the “rule of 4%”: less than four percent of the players in professional orchestras with...
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John Michael Cooper
Jun 23, 20237 min read
RRM – 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...
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John Michael Cooper
May 28, 20228 min read
ON 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...
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John Michael Cooper
May 21, 20225 min read
ON 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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John Michael Cooper
May 17, 20223 min read
ON JAMES MONROE TROTTER AND HIS "MUSIC AND SOME HIGHLY MUSICAL PEOPLE" (Part 1)
[This is the first in a series of posts of “blogified” short entries from the forthcoming second, enlarged edition of my Historical...
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John Michael Cooper
Mar 11, 20224 min read
JUDGEMENT DAY:
A Gospel Song by Florence Price and Langston Hughes Gets a Belated First Recording Popular exclamations about the trove of Florence Price...
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