YouTube: 'Kobayashi/Gray Duo performing Florence Price's The Deserted Garden'

[ABOVE: Florence B. Price BELOW: Feminissimo; Albany Troy1081 (2008) (71:48)]

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“Live performance of the Kobayashi/Gray Duo performing Florence Price's The Deserted Garden for Violin and Piano.”

The video was posted June 27, 2011. A recorded performance of this work by Laura Kobayashi, violin, and Susan Keith Gray, piano, is found on the CD pictured above, Feminissimo: Women Playing Music By Women. It was released by Albany Records on Troy1081 in 2008. The liner notes say of the composer:

“She wrote more than 300 compositions, but her works remain largely unpublished. Deserted Garden reflects a vocal, spiritual style. It was published by Theodore Presser in 1933.”

Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, where a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com, is featured. She was the first African American woman to compose a symphony which was performed by a major orchestra.