Independent Researcher

2008-9 Fellow, American Academy in Rome

Thesis Title: Recovery of Ezra Pound's Third Opera Collis O Heliconi: the transmission of history through song

About

Margaret is an independent researcher, choreographer, and video director. She lives in Emeryville California.

She writes about Futurism and early Italian Radio. She and composer/conductor Robert Hughes recently published the fifth and last volume of the complete music oeuvre of Ezra Pound. She is currently writing about Sandra Fisher Kitaj, an American painter in London. 

During the 1980s and 1990s she directed the performance/video group mafishco.
She founded and directed the first alternative performance space in the East Bay, Cat's Paw Palace of Performing Arts, Berkeley CA in the historic sawtooth building at 8th and Dwight, which was open from 1973 to 1977. She was also music copyist for composer Lou Harrison.

For information on Futurism and Radio, see
RADIA, A Gloss of the 1933 Futurist Radio Manifesto, available at http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?keyword=RADIA+A+Gloss&mtype=B&hs.x=0&hs.y=0

For information on Pound's music, visit
www.ezrapoundmusic.com
The audio CD of his complete opera Le Testament (1923), conducted by Robert Hughes and performed by San Francisco Opera Western Opera Theater is now available at http://www.alibris.com/musicsearch.detail?invid=11275556758&noworks=1&query=Le+Testament&mtype=M&qsort=&page=1

Information about Lou Harrison is widely available on the web. His archive is at Special Collections, University of California at Santa Cruz. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3489q4r5/admin/

Information about mafishco is on the web and at www.hi-beam.net/mkr/mf/mf-bio.html

Information about Cat's Paw Palace is archived at San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. Cat's Paw was a Bay Area venue in the mid 1970s for performances and workshops of Contact Improvisation. It hosted work by performance artists Carolee Schneeman, Baker Wick and Rappaport, Vancouver's Western Front, among others, theater experiments by Michael McClure and Samuel Beckett among others, choreography by Kei Takei, Bill T Jones Arnie Zane and Lois Welk, Jani Novack, Ruth Zaporah, Mary Overlie, Nina Wise, Footloose, ODC, Motion, Nancy Karp + Dancers and others, video by Stephen Beck and others, poetry performance and new music of the San Francisco Bay Area.

To hear samples from the entire oeuvre of Pound's music, and purchase the audio CD with 80-page booklet of information, visit
www.otherminds.org/shtml/Poundcd.shtml

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