Sunday, November 18, 2018

OrArtsWatch.com: BRAVO Youth Orchestra in works of Florence B. Price

Florence B. Price (1887-1953)


By Matthew Andrews

It was wonderful, in a very churchy sort of way, to hear the kids of BRAVO Youth Orchestra, Portland’s El Sistema-aligned non-profit music program, play two pieces by American composer Florence Price. Her compositional voice—distinctly American, a little Ivesy—shone through in the orchestra’s enthusiastic performance of Adoration and the first movement of her Mozarty Symphony 1 in E minor, the string orchestra anchored by a strong, vocal tone in cello and bass.

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