Fantasie Nègre – The Piano Music of Florence Price Labels: cd review https://www.planethugill.com/2021/04/fantasie-negre-piano-music-of-florence.html?fbclid=IwAR17yPkUvElVry78OkainsbDLqsKRRiV2radyVHFKafNEfZad702NonlUCE
Saturday Feb 6, 2021, while listening to Florence Price Violin Concert #2 at 91.5 FM KUSC Classical Radio- Rich Capparela show, I enjoyed reading 2/12/2018 Open Ears/Staff blog: The Resurrection of Florence Price by Gail Eichenthal https://www.kusc.org/culture/staff-blog/open-ears/open-ears-florence-b-price/. See pic of Florence Price at the piano, 1941 Photo: Arkansas Educational Television Network.
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared a paper about Margaret Bonds composition NO MAN HAS SEEN HIS FACE FOREWORD About the Composer Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-72) stands as one of the more remarkable composers in twentieth-century music – woman or man, Black or White. [1] Her mother was a musician who studied at Chicago Musical College;…
Music researcher and professor Dr. Michael Cooper shared information and performances of composer Florence Price music as follows: COMPOSING FREEDOM: On Performers’ and Listeners’ Rediscovery of Florence Price’s Clouds (ca. 1947) LIKE ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of the more than three hundred and seventy pieces that Florence B. Price (1887-1953) is known to…
Dr. Michael Cooper shared his blog A BOUQUET of FLORENCE PRICE with MusicUNTOLD. See https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3/post/a-bouquet-inspired-by-florence-b-price
Chineke! Orchestra performed behind closed doors at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in a concert entitled Black Landscapes. The programme honoured a trailblazing African-American female composer of the twentieth century, Florence B. Price. This is the first movement of her award-winning Symphony no. 1 in E minor. Conducted by Roderick Cox.
Philadelphia Orchestra perform little known symphony composed by African American female Florence Price https://www.inquirer.com/arts/philadelphia-orchestra-florence-price-yannick-nezet-seguin-review-20201125.html?fbclid=IwAR0EAZn8WQKZ0_cwRPeFdCkNNZnjI5v8HGMM3rnIiL2zwz7vnRCnd7wiQXI
MusicUNTOLD 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment concert Nov. 21, 2015, Constitution Hall, Washington DC included a solo piano performance by Karen Walwyn of God Bless America and the 1st movement of her original “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me”. The genius of Karen Walwyn is displayed in the…
PREMIERE performance of a 1941 song by Florence Price on a text by Langston Hughes: the Monologue for the Working Class. Dr. Michael Cooper is responsible for this Florence Price revision and numerous other Florence Price and Margaret Bonds new discoveries and revisions.
Dr. Michael Cooper continues to unearth new discoveries by composer Florence Price. Here is another titled CLOUDS performed by pianist Lara Downes.