[Florence
B. Price; Chicago Renaissance Woman:
Florence B. Price Organ Works; Calvert
Johnson, organ; Calcante 014 (1997)]
Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953)
is
profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works
List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com Here is the entry for Adoration:
“Adoration,
for organ. Dayton: Lorenz Music, 1951. Duration: 3:25.
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Fayetteville, AR: ClanNan Editions. 1995 (Music
of Florence Beatrice Price, vol., 2: Short organ works).
CD:
Calvert Johnson, organ (3m Harrison & Harrison; Christ Church,
Savannah). Calcante CAL-014 (Chicago
Renaissance woman; Florence Price organ works).”
A
student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has made an
original arrangement of the Florence Price work Adoration
(2:15):
Uploaded
by Ender1432 on Jan 1, 2012
“I
would like to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year. I've been busy
with work and composing, but I decided to upload something a little
different. I just finished an Arrangement class in college and this
was my final project. I picked the piece for many reasons but one of
the main ones was to celebrate the life of this amazing woman
composer. Originally an organ piece, I arranged it by hand for
orchestra and my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Symphony Orchestra performed the piece and we were able to record it.
I would like to dedicate this arrangement to my girlfriend, who
helped me copy parts for individual players and to my arranging
instructor for his advice. I would also like to dedicate it to
Florence Price and to other amazing women composers. Please remember
that I didn't compose the piece and this was merely an arrangement of
an already very beautiful piece of music. I only hope that this
arrangement honors her memory.”
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