Dr. John Michael Cooper is a distinguished musicologist, scholar, and professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. With a prolific career, he has made substantial contributions to music scholarship, including the publication of influential research and critical editions of works
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Piano quintet beyond its traditional string quartet format
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Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
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Etudes for Intermediate Beginners Finding and analyzing interesting etudes composed for the intermediate-beginner pianist
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We all know the great Venetian opera librettist and poet Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) from his collaboration on three of Mozart’s most celebrated operas, The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790). It is much
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Michael Daugherty: Fire and Blood In 1933, a set of 27 fresco panels by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera was unveiled at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Rivera (1886–1957) brought the idea of murals to life. His enormous works,
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Tamayo Ikeda’s playing matches the different aesthetics of her composers and provides a nicely thoughtful survey of two composers’ interpretations of the same word….but oh so differently. Have a listen!
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It might come as a surprise, but Franz Schubert wrote almost as much piano music for four hands as for two. His thirty-four compositions in this medium range from his earliest surviving music, the Fantasie D. 48, to his Rondo