Congratulations to Dr. Michael Cooper who shared the following:
I’m honored and humbled to have been invited to speak on Margaret Bonds in the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s Guest Lecture Series on 24 March, 2021.
The complete line-up is below. All the lectures are free (and virtual):
18 November 2020: Professor Stephen Emmerson (Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Australia): ‘Creativity in the performance of Western Classical Music’
2 December 2020: Adrian LeHarivel (Curator of British Art, National Gallery of Ireland): ‘A Visual History of the Orchestra 1: Monteverdi to Haydn’
9 December 2020: Adrian LeHarivel (Curator of British Art, National Gallery of Ireland): ‘A Visual History of the Orchestra 2: Beethoven’s legacy’
10 February 2021: Professor Samantha Owens (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): ‘Matthew Dubourg, Redmond Simpson and the Accumulation of Wealth by Professional Musicians in Eighteenth-Century Ireland and England’
24 February 2021: Jonathan Impett (Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium and Middlesex University, London, UK): ‘Thinking music through technology’
24 March 2021: Professor John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University, USA): ‘Margaret Bonds and the Poetics of Racial Justice’
Thanks to Denise Neary for this exciting invitation!
