COOPER, Rose Marie
(*1937)> COMPOSER
COOPER, Rose Marie American composer. Cairo, IL, February 21, 1937. After studying under Warren Angell, she graduated in 1959 from Oklahoma Baptist University (B.Mus.) and in 1960 from Teachers College, Columbia University (M.A.) where she studied under Henry Cowell (music and music education). She received seventeen ASCAP awards and the Outstanding Young Woman of North Carolina Award (1971). She was on the faculty of Greensboro College from 1965 to 1967 and in 1976 received a Ph.D. in child…