NWAOnline.com: Pianist Linda Holzer, a faculty member of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, moderates a Sunday panel at "PriceFest"

Florence B. Price (1887-1953)

(Democrat-Gazette file photo)

 

Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

by Eric E. Harrison

August 19, 2021

Pianist on Price

Pianist Linda Holzer, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will moderate a panel Sunday at the International Florence Price Festival, aka "PriceFest," a virtual music festival dedicated to the legacy of composer and Arkansas native Florence Price, at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Holzer's panel discussion, titled "Roots and Wings: The Role of Florence Price's Arkansas Heritage," will cover "the nurturing inspirational forces in Little Rock that shaped Florence Price's childhood education" and became the foundation for her professional career, according to a news release.

The panel will also include Sybil Hampton, retired president of Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Stephen Hayes of Philander Smith College; Earnest Lamb of Minnesota State University Moorhead; and Benji de la Piedra, director of the Herbert Denton Community History Project for the Central Arkansas Library System.

Register for the conference (there's a registration fee) at pricefest.org/register.

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Price was the first female Black composer to have a symphonic composition performed by a major American orchestra and was one of the first Black classical composers to gain international attention.