Sunday, February 24, 2019

TribLive.com: Pittsburgh Symphony performs Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 March 2, 8 PM

Hill Dance Academy Theatre

Florence B. Price (1887-1953)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop

Friday, February 22, 2019

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has teamed with Hill District community members for the annual “Lift Every Voice” concert, a celebration of the neighborhood’s cultural legacy.

The concert is at 8 p.m. March 2 at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts in Downtown Pittsburgh. Symphony and associate conductor Andres Franco will be joined by co-hosts Demeatria Boccella, founder of FashionAFRICANA, one of the leading African-inspired fashion and art events in Pittsburgh and Kiya Tomlin, founder of Kiya Tomlin Fashion. Other scheduled attendees include: vocalists Capathia Jenkins and Anqwenique, violinist Ade Williams and pianist Deanna Witkowski, the Lift Every Voice Unity Choir and the Hill Dance Academy Theatre.

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The program features Florence Price’s “Symphony No. 1 in E Minor." She is notably the first African American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer and to have a composition played by a major orchestra when this piece debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933.

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