Dr. Michael Cooper shared the following information about Florence B Price seven pieces for piano solo with MusicUNTOLD. FLORENCE PRICE: SEVEN DESCRIPTIVE PIECES FOR PIANO SOLO Florence B. Price (1887-1953) achieved a level of renown that defied all expectations for an African American woman in her day.[1] Having studied at the New England Conservatory from 1903 to 1906,…
Dr. Michael Cooper shares information and performances of newly discovered music by composer Margaret Bonds. Please see https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/the-sound-of-peace?fbclid=IwAR18lZHwbxl4vopMy4YIOcTLN8nXFi8eF8KOkL_APndO8wzMj8n6s_2WZ5o
Miriam Makeba, South African singer, songwriter, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist, Nov. 15, 1968 performance at UCLA Pauley Pavilion is connected to two Long Beach Poly alumni. Lewis Gray, president of World Wide Production recruited me to locate a venue for a concert featuring Miriam Makeba. Debra Hill was a close…
January 18, 2021 is Martin Luther King Jr. day. MusicUNTOLD has produced multiple concerts honoring the legacy of Dr. King including “Symphony of Brotherhood Concert” (classical music commemorating the Anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots on April 25, 2014 at Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles featuring performance by the Colorado Mesa University Piano…
Dr. Michael Cooper recently discovered Margaret Bond’s Christmas song BRIGHT STAR (SABT) was adapted for solo voice and piano by Jacqueline Hairston. Please listen to Baritone Robert Sims world premiere of BRIGHT STAR.
PostClassical featuring PostClassical Ensemble in a special 2019 edition honoring Black History Month. Bass-baritone Kevin Deas is the soloist for this program, called Deep River: The Art of the Spiritual, featuring the music of Harry Burleigh, Nathanial Dett, William Dawson and others. This webcast contains 20+ minutes of material not heard in the broadcast! See https://www.wwfm.org/post/postclassical-feb-15-deep-river
Louis Armstrong “Black and Blue”, a 1929 B-side on Okeh Records’ “popular music” listings (a label that had previously marketed him for “race records”), has been called American music’s first bona fide protest song against racial inequality
Dr. Michael Cooper quote: I’M EXCITED AND DELIGHTED to share this announcement from my esteemed friends at Hildegard Publishing Company: a new announcement of #MargaretBonds‘s Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, along with two other masterpieces: the Montgomery Variations (1964), which were inspired by Bonds’s thirteen-stop southern tour in 1963-64, and the magisterial…
OPERA WIRE interview Kenneth Overton. See https://operawire.com/q-a-baritone-kenneth-overton-on-returning-to-live-performance-and-spotlighting-the-lives-of-the-black-opera-greats/
Historic recordings of African American Classical Musicians. See NPR story https://www.npr.org/player/embed/944287525/944337798 and http://blacklikevanilla.com/the-story-of-black-swan-records-the-first-commercially-successful-black-owned-and-operated-record-company/