The San Francisco Chronicle
Joshua Kosman
January 16, 2019
The recent surge of interest in the music of Florence Price (Michael
Morgan leads the Oakland Symphony in her Symphony No. 3 on Friday, Jan.
25) is a heartening and important development on several fronts. Most
obviously, it rescues from invisibility a key pioneer in the history of
African-American music — Price, who died in 1953, wrote symphonies,
concertos, vocal works and chamber music, in the face of a host of
societal obstacles.
The Fort Smith Symphony, in Price’s native Arkansas, has launched a
series of recordings devoted to her music, and the two symphonies here
show a canny and often resourceful fusion of European form with American
melodic strains.
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