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Jobs:

  • The New School of Music: where I'm the Interim Executive Director.
  • The Berkeley Beacon: Emerson College's newspaper where I was the Business Manager.
  • The Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care: a non-profit organization where I did financial work and a lot of other stuff. I still do some consulting now and then.
  • Camp Glen Brook: a Waldorf camp where I was the Music Director in New Hampshire for two summers. I also wrote a musical for the campers which they performed on Parent's Weekend. It was a feminist version of Snow White.
  • American School in London: a school where I student taught during my junior year at Oberlin (for one month).

Education and Past Classical Performing Groups:

  • Manhattan School of Music - Preparatory Division: I attended from 1986 - 1993 as a preparatory division student. What an amazing experience. I gave up my Saturdays during puberty - WOW.
  • Ridgewood High School: I went to high school in New Jersey.
  • Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra: a great community orchestra mainly comprised adult amateur musicians, conducted by Sandra Dackow. I was a part of this group for four years during high school. We performed at Carnegie Hall once and Lincoln Center once, which I'll never forget.
  • Kinhaven: a music camp in beautiful Vermont, where I literally found my musical self. Words can't explain how special this place is to me.
  • Oberlin College/Conservatory: I went to college. Loved it.
  • Medina City Schools: the school system in Ohio where I did a semester's work of intense student teaching. I mainly taught elementary school strings, but also conducted the junior high and high school orchestras. I worked with great teachers there.

Cool sites:

General Violin Links:

Electric Violin Links:

Instrument Repair/Maintenance:

Music Theory:

Free Sheet Music to Download:

Sites to Order Violin-Related Products:

Bands, Artists, Record Labels:

  • Liz Phair is my idol. This isn't her official site but it'll get you started...
  • I love Beck.
  • Radiohead rocks.
  • Stereolab is a great balance between the electronic, French lyrics and great musicians who play their organic instruments innovatively.
  • Grandaddy's gonna hit big someday - a perfect blend of melody, old-school meets new-school electronica and colorful sound patchworks.
  • Cyndi Lauper is a somewhat underrated musician...every see her belt it out?
  • Patty Larkin is an amazing singer/songwriter.
  • Grease:I know it's not a movie, but ever since I was a kid I've been obsessed with this movie, along with the music from it and John Travolta.
  • My mom played a Peter Yorn CD for me and I couldn't stop playing it myself after I bought the album.
  • This is a list of lots of Pink Floyd links.
  • Depeche Mode is an amazing band that I fell in love with and never quite got over it.
  • Weezer: Concise, no frills, melodic, pop-candy - they're awesome.
  • Cheryl Wheeler is a folk musician with hutzpah and she's funny as hell.
  • He sings Gershwin like it's nobody's business: Michael Feinstein.
  • U2 needs no explanation, right?
  • The Beatles don't need one either.
  • My all-time depressing group, Nine Inch Nails. Wow.
  • I fell in love with Faith No More in high school, sophomore year. I was quite obsessed with them and still think they are great.
  • Musica Omnia is the vibrant new classical music label featuring historically-informed performances by internationally acclaimed artists.

Sites to Buy CDs:

Sites on String Technique:

Sites/Books on Improvisation:

Interesting Books Related to Adult Learning:

Discussion Groups:

Practice Tips:

Concert Listings (local Boston area):

Please email me at mercooper@hotmail.com with links I might want to add to this site.


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