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Florence Price

  • Florence Price Symphonies On Par with Dvorak

    Feb 27th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Florence Price, Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter, Naxos

    As pressure mounts for orchestras to diversify their programming, Florance Foster Price has risen in prominence. Price was a composer of color active in the late 1930s and 40s. Her first symphony, completed in 1932 won a competition and was premiered by the Chicago Symphony in 1933. Stylistically, the work owes much to Antonin Dvorak […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #NAFTAclassics Week 3

    Jul 20th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClasssicsaDay, #NAFTAclassics, Carlos Sánchez-Gutierrez, Florence Price, Joan Tower, Juan Trigos, Owen Underhill, Twitter

    We have an international mix of contributors to the #ClassicsaDay feed. July has significant holidays for two of the three countries in North America. So, at the suggestion of a Canadian contributor, July became #NAFTAclassics, marking Canada Day (July 1) and Independence Day (July 4). Mexico doesn’t have a July holiday, but we decided to […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WeWriteSymphonies Annotated List – Week 1

    Feb 9th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WeWriteSymphonies, Florence Price, George Walker, H. Leslie Adams, R. Nathaniel Dett, Twitter, Ulysses Kay, William L. Dawson

    I’m a regular contributor to the #ClassicsaDay feed on Twitter. At a speech in Poland on 7/6/17, the President said, “The world has never known anything like our community of nations. We write symphonies.”  The next day #WeWriteSymphonies appeared on Twitter, citing all the non-Western — and non-white — composers who do indeed write symphonies. […]

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