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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