COOL STORY RECORDS
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Founded by composer Jonathan Bingham, Cool Story is a platform prioritizing the research and organization of the world’s unheard music. Our first release will feature the music of composers associated with Howard University. This includes Bingham, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Mark Fax. We hope you enjoy.
Mark Fax (1911-1974)
Recording by "The President's Own" United States Marine String Quartet on April 14, 2010 at the Howard University Art Gallery:
IN THE NEWS
“…Cool Story Records, a recording project Bingham created to highlight the work of Howard University composers such as Mark Fax, whose compositions were rescued from a trash bin after a custodian cleaned out Fax’s office following his death.” Read more…
“This realization led [Jonathan Bingham] to create Cool Story Records. The label aims to produce a studio recording of the complete 3 movement string quartet of [Mark] Fax, and Fax’s works for other instruments and voice, as well as unheard works of two of Fax’s students: the living composers Dorothy Rudd Moore, Adolphus Hailstork.” Read more…
“Bingham made a recording of the quartet on his laptop, which he eventually found out was the only recording of the piece in existence, which brought him to his next project: Cool Story Records, a label Bingham is founding to record and release the complete three-movement string quartet of Fax, other works the composer wrote for other instruments and voice, as well as an as-yet-unheard work from one of Fax’s students: Dorothy Rudd Moore, who died in March 2022.” Read more…