Saturday, April 23, 2011

Florence B. Price Heard in 'Music by American Women Composers' 3 PM May 1, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick

[Florence B. Price]

Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, where a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma is featured. She was the first African American woman to compose a symphony which was performed by a major orchestra. Florence Price is among the composers whose works will be featured at the American Women Composers Concert at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey on May 1, 2011:

NEW BRUNSWICK American Women Composers Concert, including music by Amy Beach, Florence Price, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Diane Goolkasian Rahbee, Annie Gosfield, Ellen Taaffe Zwillich and Gabriela Lena Frank. May 1 at 3 p.m. $5 to $15.”

71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
CONCERT / Music by American Women Composers
Date: May 01, 2011 Time: 3:00pm
Rosanne Vita Nahass, pianist-in-residence
Amidst the prints of American artist Joan Snyder, the Zimmerli's pianist-in-residence, Rosanne Vita Nahass, concludes the concert series with a program of American music composed entirely by women. This concert includes music by present-day female composers.

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