Dr. Michael Cooper is authoring a book on two of Margaret Bonds’s most important Civil Rights manifestos — the “Montgomery Variations” (1964) and her setting of the W.E.B. Du Bois “Credo” (1965-67) for Cambridge University Press. The book will be part of the inaugural batch (six volumes) of the New Cambridge Music Handbooks series, edited…
NAACP IMAGE AWARDS continue to exclude excellence in classical music by composers and artists of African descent. See prior MusicUNTOLD blog https://musicuntold.com/index.php/naacp-image-awards/ and current NAACP nominations https://deadline.com/2021/02/naacp-image-awards-nominations-2021-1234685220/?fbclid=IwAR3mbj6aHG20llhvxGi-rBDKPTA1_Oqr1XEUehmiVe8fKXaHNGjgFmi4IE4. Also see Youtube performance of soprano Latonia Moore during Metropolitan Opera staging of Porgy & Bess. The Metropolitan Opera cast recording of PORGY & BESS is nominated for…