GU Concert Choir with Prof. Frederick Binkholder, part of “Black Feminism, Margaret Bonds, and the Credo of W. E. B. Du Bois”
Royal Irish Academy of Music
Black Feminism, Margaret Bonds, and the Credo of W. E. B. Du Bois
Professor John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University, USA)
with the Georgetown University Concert Choir–Prof. Frederick Binkholder, Music Director
The GU Concert Choir assists John Michael Cooper, Professor of Music and holder of the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, as part of his presentation for the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s 2020-21 Online Guest Lecture Series. Under the direction of Prof. Frederick Binkholder, the ensemble will perform selections from Margaret Bonds’ “Credo,” edited by Dr. Michael Cooper. Program includes the 1st Movement (“I Believe in God”), 2nd Movement (“Especially do I believe” with soprano soloist Katerina Burton from the Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artists) and the 7th Movement (“I Believe in Justice”).
Cooper is the author of books published by Routledge, Oxford University Press, the University of Rochester Press, and Rowman and Littlefield, as well as the editor of 12 editions of music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy published by Bärenreiter Urtext and other editions published elsewhere. He is the editor of an ongoing series of 64 editions of (mostly) previously unpublished works by Florence Price with G. Schirmer, Inc., and of a series of more than 30 compositions by Margaret Bonds published by Hildegard Publishing Company in association with Theodore Presser. He is currently working on a monograph titled Margaret Bonds and the Poetics of Racial Justice: the “Montgomery Variations” and “Credo” in Context.
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