John Michael CooperMARGARET BONDS’S “TROUBLED WATER” IN HER ARRANGEMENT FOR CELLO AND PIANOTroubled Water is arguably Margaret Bonds’s best-known instrumental composition. Published by itself by Sam Fox Publishing (New York) in…Jan 28, 2022
John Michael CooperAN AUSPICOUS ANNIVERSARY:Telling the Story of Will H. Dixon, 145 Years LaterAug 28Aug 28
John Michael CooperTHE PROGRAM OF THE MONTGOMERY VARIATIONSThe Minnesota Orchestra Has Recorded an Orchestral Masterpiece by Margaret Bonds. Here is her explanation of the work’s inspiration &…Oct 15, 2021Oct 15, 2021
John Michael CooperTHE HOUSTON EBONY OPERA GUILD SINGS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.Part 3 of 3: Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, the Trapp Family Singers, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and an Austro-German…May 28May 28
John Michael CooperMARGARET BONDS’S “TROUBLED WATER” IN HER ARRANGEMENT FOR CELLO AND PIANOTroubled Water is arguably Margaret Bonds’s best-known instrumental composition. Published by itself by Sam Fox Publishing (New York) in…Jan 28, 2022
John Michael CooperAN AUSPICOUS ANNIVERSARY:Telling the Story of Will H. Dixon, 145 Years LaterAug 28
John Michael CooperTHE PROGRAM OF THE MONTGOMERY VARIATIONSThe Minnesota Orchestra Has Recorded an Orchestral Masterpiece by Margaret Bonds. Here is her explanation of the work’s inspiration &…Oct 15, 2021
John Michael CooperTHE HOUSTON EBONY OPERA GUILD SINGS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.Part 3 of 3: Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, the Trapp Family Singers, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and an Austro-German…May 28
John Michael CooperTHE CREDO OF MARGARET BONDS AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MUSIC PUBLISHINGPart 1Mar 9, 2022
John Michael CooperTHE HOUSTON EBONY OPERA GUILD SINGS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.My previous post described a brilliantly programmed concert to be given in celebration of Juneteenth — its history, its trials and…May 221
John Michael CooperFLORENCE PRICE V. LANGSTON HUGHES AT THE “FEET O’ JESUS”Langston Hughes’s relationship with the Christian church was . . . complicated. Except that it wasn’t. While he acknowledged that the…Aug 28, 2021