women composers – History in the Margins

Starting Women’s History Month with a Song in Our Hearts

By Pamela | March 1, 2024 |

As usual in March, I am hosting a month-long series of mini-interviews here on the Margins in celebration of women’s history month. As usual, we have three questions (or more) and an answer with people doing interesting work related to women’s history in a variety of fields and forms. (If you want to read some…

Talking About Women’s History: Four Questions and an Answer with Michael Cooper

By Pamela | March 28, 2022 |

Here’s the official bio: Dr. Michael Cooper, the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts, has had research interests in 19th-century music, source studies, historiography and political history, specializing in Mendelssohn, Schumann, Berlioz, and Richard Strauss. He has also spent the last three decades in research of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, and is a…