{"id":59739,"date":"2020-06-18T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59739"},"modified":"2021-12-04T00:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:55:51","slug":"revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59739","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting The Pioneering Composer Florence Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/21\/686622572\/revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Revisiting The Pioneering Composer Florence Price<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/all-things-considered\/2019\/01\/21\/687085488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Things Considered<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/7572727\/tom-huizenga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tom Huizenga<\/strong><\/a>, Music Producer<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/21\/686622572\/revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/01\/18\/florence-price-addendum-1000-d3fe9ed7007657f8cf3dd8dffe790a4877c7e90d-s1600-c85.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florence_Price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florence Price<\/a> was the first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra.<br \/>\n<em>Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/686622572\/687255751\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1933, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Symphony_Orchestra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Symphony Orchestra<\/a> gave the world premiere of Symphony No. 1 by a then little-known composer named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florence_Price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florence Price<\/a>. The performance marked the first time a major orchestra played music by an African-American woman.<\/p>\n<p>Price&#8217;s First Symphony, along with her Fourth, has just been released on an album featuring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortsmithsymphony.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Smith Symphony<\/a>, conducted by John Jeter.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Price, especially in the African-American community, may argue that her music has never really been forgotten. But some of it has been lost. Not long ago, a couple bought a fixer-upper, south of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago<\/a>, and discovered nearly 30 boxes of manuscripts and papers. Among the discoveries in what turned out to be Price&#8217;s abandoned summer home was her Fourth Symphony, composed in 1945. This world-premiere recording is another new piece of the puzzle to understanding the life and music of Price, and a particular time in America&#8217;s cultural history.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/21\/686622572\/revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story (00:04:00) <a href=\"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2019\/01\/20190121_atc_revisiting_the_pioneering_composer_florence_price.mp3?orgId=1&amp;topicId=1104&amp;d=243&amp;p=2&amp;story=686622572&amp;dl=1&amp;siteplayer=true&amp;size=3882687&amp;dl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1933, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Symphony No. 1 by a then little-known composer named Florence Price. The performance marked the first time a major orchestra played music by an African-American woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2850,1245,8,20,25],"tags":[2342,3027,32569,32540,32467,30896,5488,1392,2309,2833,30897],"class_list":["post-59739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-audio","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-all-things-considered","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-symphony-orchestra","tag-florence-b-price-2","tag-florence-beatrice-price","tag-florence-price","tag-illinois","tag-music","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-tom-huizenga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62496,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59739\/revisions\/62496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}