Forbes.com: BBC Radio 3 To Celebrate Female Composers For International Women's Day [Composers Include Florence B. Price]

Florence B. Price

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Rebecca Lerner, Contributor

For the fourth year in a row, BBC Radio 3 will spend International Women's Day righting wrongs.

Radio 3 is slated to celebrate female composers excluded from the narrative of musical history. And for the first time this year, the station has a call out for young female composers on the BBC Introducing page.

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On March 8, the 2 million weekly listeners of Radio 3 will experience previously unheard works by five historical female composers who have been historically neglected, including American composer Florence Price, have been specially-recorded by the BBC Orchestras and Choirs and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.