Florence B. Price (1887-1953)
is featured at AfriClassical.com
Five academics will work with Radio 3 to find music by forgotten women composers [Shirley Thompson, center]
James Greeson, Professor Emeritus of the University of Arkansas, writes:
BBC Radio has a new initiative to feature 5 "Forgotten Women
Composers" and Florence Price is one of the 5. Here is a link to their
website discussing it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/bbc-radio-3-celebrates-five-forgotten-female-composers
James Greeson adds that Dr. Shirley Thompson will be focused on Florence B. Price:
She has just
emailed me and I'm sharing my images of Price's orchestral scores that
are in our Special Collections library so she can see what her options
are.
I also was happy to learn that BBC Radio 3 did in fact broadcast
performances of Price's "Piano Concerto" and "Ethiopia's Shadow in
America" that they performed back in January 2015 just before our Price
Symposium at the University of Arkansas. At that time they didn't confirm that broadcast
these pieces, but in fact they did, and they have
been rebroadcast a few times as well.
So things are going very well for Florence Price's legacy...
Retweets
1) Meg Wilhoite (@megwilhoite)
2) Thea Derks (@tdrks)
Retweets
1) Meg Wilhoite (@megwilhoite)
2) Thea Derks (@tdrks)
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