Florence B. Price
Broadway World
Los Angeles
Pacific Symphony of Orange County, California
Feb. 8, 2019
First Symphony performances of Florence Price works
Pacific Symphony audiences will be introduced to music by Florence Price,
an under-appreciated composer with an important voice. She was the
first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer
and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. She was
born in Arkansas, but trained at the New England Conservatory, the only
music school at the time to accept African-Americans as students. But
as a black woman composing classical music, she had a difficult time
making headway in a culture that defined composers as white, male and
dead, as Alex Ross
of The New Yorker recently wrote. Price's Dances in the Canebrakes and
Piano Concerto in One Movement will receive their Symphony premieres on a
program that also features Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and An American
in Paris (Nov. 14-16). The piano soloist for these performances will be
Aaron Diehl, described by Wynton Marsalis as The Real Diehl because of his consummate mastery of the instrument.
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