GoMemphis.com: 'Florence B. Price secured her place in history on June 15, 1933.'

Barbara Wright-Pryor

Florence B. Price (1887-1953) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.




The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
MSO honors composer who broke barriers

• By Jon W. Sparks
• Posted May 16, 2013 at 1:48 p.m.

Florence B. Price secured her place in history on June 15, 1933.
That was the day the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony in E Minor, the first work of its kind by an African-American woman performed by a major orchestra.
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This weekend, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs Price’s “Mississippi River Suite,” a 1934 tone poem that mashes up themes from spirituals (“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” “Go Down, Moses”), folk songs and a Native American chant.
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Barbara Wright-Pryor, president of the Chicago Music Association, is an expert on Price as well as an educator and classical soloist who is passionate about keeping the history of African Americans in classical music.
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For all her achievements and output, Price remains a relatively little known figure. But Wright-Pryor hopes that will change. “The city, nation and world deserves to experience her music.”

Memphis Symphony Orchestra
7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 N. Main. Tickets $15-$79 (students $5).
2:30 p.m. Sunday,
Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter.
Tickets $45.
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