Guest Artists Masterclass (Margaret Bonds & Florence Price)
Guest Artists Masterclass (Margaret Bonds & Florence Price) by Dr. Michael Cooper.
PREMIERE performance of a 1941 song by Florence Price: Monologue for the Working Class
PREMIERE performance of a 1941 song by Florence Price on a text by Langston Hughes: the Monologue for the Working Class. Dr. Michael Cooper is responsible for this Florence Price revision and numerous other Florence Price and Margaret Bonds new discoveries and revisions.
Dr. Michael Cooper’s partial history of classical music by composers of African descent
The concert halls and classrooms alike give the undeniable impression that while Blacks are vitally important and great in repertoires outside the concert halls (such as blues, jazz, and spirituals), the concert halls themselves are, and have always been, the domains of Whites—most of them men, most of them European. This impression is only corroborated…
Dr. Michael Cooper, Southwestern Louisiana
Dr. Michael Cooper, Southwestern Louisiana, has developed a class/course to teach antiracism in one of the greatest of all White spaces in higher education, the Music History curriculum. See https://medium.com/@michaelcooper_38640/challenging-a-sonic-refuge-of-whiteness-in-undergraduate-music-history-courses-f99136ea3132
Florence Price piano suite “Snapshots”
Dr. Michael Cooper shared his first publication of Florence Price’s piano suite “Snapshots” recorded by Robin Arrigo! Listen to it here https://youtu.be/64F1KwvB9vY . To learn more about the piece (which is nowhere discussed in any of the published literature about Price), specifically what it teaches us about Price as pianist-storyteller, see Dr. Cooper post here https://bit.ly/314AuQV or here https://bit.ly/3kYuAbV.