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Source: Nameless Sound.

Cooper-Moore
Two Distinct Concerts
at Two of Houston’s Great Cultural Centers

Solo with Hand-Crafted Instruments and Voice
Sunday, March 5 at 6pm
in the Courtyard at Project Row Houses
2521 Holman St.
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Solo Piano
Tuesday, March 7 8pm
in the Gallery at DeLUXE Theater
3303 Lyons Ave.

The work of Cooper-Moore is a testament to commitment, vision, compassion, and invention. Trained as the pianist of his family’s rural Virginian church at 12, community service was ingrained from the beginning. A working musician and composer, Cooper-Moore developed a method for teaching academic curriculum to 3 to 5 year-olds through music. Publishing this method, he traveled the country training Head Start teachers. His has been core figure as a pianist in New York’s free-jazz scene (first in the early 70’s, then again since 1985). But his artistry has also included music for theater, dance, and film. Cooper-Moore’s current performances encompass wide-ranging explorations on hand-made instruments, insightful storytelling, and virtuosic piano playing. He is an artist whose music embodies the urgency of the moment, and whose voice delivers plainspoken truth with unwavering intensity. In 2006 and 2008, Cooper-Moore came to Houston to work with children in Nameless Sound’s workshops, training Nameless Sound’s staff in his methods. Raising the bar for our own mission, he left an immeasurable influence on our organization.

Source: Experimental Albums & Music Reviews | Pitchfork

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Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Nineteen new members and four honorary members will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters during its annual Ceremonial on May 24, 2023. The Academy’s American Honorary membership, which began in 1983, recognizes up to twenty Americans of extraordinary artistic achievement whose work falls outside of or transcends the fields of architecture, art, literature, and music composition.

In addition to electing new members as vacancies occur, the Academy seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts by administering over 70 awards and prizes totaling more than $1 million, exhibiting art and manuscripts, funding performances of new works of musical theater, purchasing artwork for donation to museums across the country, and presenting talks and concerts.

Source: Far Out.

Of course, Richard Strauss’ 1896 tone poem isn’t the only memorable cue from 2001. There’s also the music of Hungarian avant-garde composer György Ligeti. According to Benson, “that movie would not be remotely the same if Kubrick hadn’t stumbled on, via his wife and [visual effects designer] Con Pederson’s wife, this Ligeti music,” he commented. “Christiane Kubrick and Con’s wife [Charleen Pederson] were working together, making sculptures of aliens for Stanley. We’re talking now fall of ’67. They were listening to the BBC, and on came this music, which was so unearthly and spooky and powerful and majestic that they immediately had to find out what it was”. They waited in hushed anticipation for the host to announce Ligeti’s name “but it took [Kubrick] weeks to hear the piece because Ligeti was almost completely unknown then,” Benson added.

Source: The Elite Extremophile.

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