Michael Cooper shared this NEW VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE of Margaret Bonds’s gorgeous SATB/piano arrangement of THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS sung by the USC Thornton Chamber Singers, conducted by Jo-Michael Scheibe, with Sky Lee, collaborative pianist.
Margaret Bonds’s Montgomery Variations (1964) will be performed by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic July 15, 2021 https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/meanwhile-in-l-a?fbclid=IwAR1kMXIg9XcU5mLj4-ieOE0bJAZMSzY79JTSYw9hWMnEy_h6fRMbobj-O6g
Dr. Michael Cooper lecturer March 24, 2021 at the Royal Irish Academy of Music titled “Black Feminism, Margaret Bonds, and the ‘Credo’ of W.E.B. Du Bois” was recorded for posterity.
Composer Margaret Bonds 1965 “ESPECIALLY DO I BELIEVE IN THE NEGRO RACE” (song #2 from CREDO) edited by Michael Cooper.
Rediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs. Louise Toppin, Editor Videmus African American Art Song Series. 250 pages. Sole Distributor: Classical Vocal Reprints, CVR5268. $55.00. https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Rediscovering-Margaret-Bonds-Art-Songs-Spirituals-Musical-Theater-and-Popular-Songs-401530.html?fbclid=IwAR3srA-xpTZUN9cdud31fc7RkGQpgO11AXKffMGihf2SF-cEqpUPE4AXZow
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…
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
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…
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…
Composer Margaret Bonds’s setting of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost is an ‘African American woman – settings of a White man’s words’ (Dr. Michael Cooper). Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his…