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John Michael Cooper

Oct 53 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...

John Michael Cooper

Sep 24 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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...