Posts tagged University of Arkansas
Plus Ça Change: Florence B. Price in the #Blacklivesmatter Era
Plus Ça Change: Florence B. Price in the #Blacklivesmatter Era

“Florence Price’s daughter, Florence Robinson, expressed similar frustrations after Price died in 1953. Artists were happy to perform Price’s arrangements of Negro spirituals, but she found no advocates for her mother’s symphonic compositions…”

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EssayDouglas ShadleMozart, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Mike Snell, Raoul Abdul, Er-Gene Kahng, New Jersey Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina Symphony., Minnesota Orchestra, Fort Smith Symphony, Naxos Records, Chicago Symphony, Nancy Leong, Anthony R. Green, Robin DiAngelo, Florence Robinson, Frederick Stock, John Powell, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Margaret Bonds, Chicago Defender, Oscar E. Saffold, George Gershwin, Henry Hadley, Deems Taylor, William Daly, Harry T. Burleigh, Berlioz, John Alden Carpenter, Roland Hayes, Pittsburgh Courier, Frederick Schwass, University of Arkansas, Bronx Symphony Orchestra, By Douglas Shadle
2018: The Year of Florence
2018: The Year of Florence

“After her death in 1953, Price maintained a loyal following among a small but dedicated group of scholars, performers, organizations, and connoisseurs who diligently put forward a range of scholarly editions, papers, recordings, documentaries, and performances carrying the torch forward.“

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ListicleJordan Randall SmithChicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, Chicago World’s Fair, George Chadwick, Little Rock, Arkansas, Douglas Shadle, Mei Ann Chen, Rae Linda Brown, Barbara Garvey Jackson, Society for American Music, Bulletin of the Society for American Music, Micaela Baranello, John Jeter, Ft. Smith Symphony, University of Arkansas, Florence Price Special Collection, Juba, African-American Spirituals, By Jordan Randall Smith