Saint Louis Post Dispatch: Gesher Music Festival Performs Florence Price's "Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint"

Florence B. Price (1887-1953)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

August 11, 2018

Sarah Bryan Miller

The Gesher Music Festival returns this week for its eighth annual season with a theme of “Voices Rising.”

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Finally, on Sunday afternoon at the JCC Wool Studio Theater, the musicians will explore music by what Sitzer calls “underrepresented composers,” including women, African-Americans and members of the LGBT community, and “those whose voices have been lost,” such as Holocaust victims. There’s a local premiere by St. Louis-based composer L.J. White, “Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint” by African-American composer Florence Price (1887-1953) and a suite from the film “The Golem,” by Betty Olivero.