{"id":62472,"date":"2021-12-03T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62472"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:35:49","slug":"new-childrens-book-tells-the-story-of-florence-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62472","title":{"rendered":"New Children’s Book Tells the Story of Florence Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Children’s Book Tells the Story of Florence Price<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Wise Music Classical<\/a>
\n2021-10-08<\/p>\n

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A classroom exploration and discovery led students to create an illustrated biography of a composer whose music is being widely celebrated around the world today. Their book Who is Florence Price?<\/em><\/a> will be published by Schirmer Trade Books, part of Wise Music Group<\/a>, on November 18th 2021.<\/p>\n

Florence Price<\/a> became the first Black woman to have her music played by a major American orchestra when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra<\/a> performed her Symphony No. 1<\/a> in 1933. The new children\u2019s book Who Is Florence Price?<\/em> tells the story of a brilliant musician who prevailed against race and gender prejudices to achieve this important milestone. The book was written and illustrated by 45 middle school students at Kaufman Music Center\u2019s Special Music School<\/a>, New York City\u2019s<\/a> only K-12<\/a> public school that teaches music as a core subject. The project began when English teacher Shannon Potts<\/a> realized that there were no materials about Price\u2019s life at the lower school reading level. The students studied Price\u2019s biography and mapped out her life story on a wall, discussing which elements were most important to the narrative for their intended audience: children at approximately the third-grade reading level. After collaboratively writing and revising the text, the students created the illustrations, beginning with backgrounds of cut paper. The book was originally self-published as a classroom project shortly before the [COVID-19] pandemic<\/a> shut down NYC<\/a> in the spring of 2020 and has been revised for the 2021 release…<\/p>\n

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New Children’s Book Tells the Story of Florence Price Wise Music Classical 2021-10-08 A classroom exploration and discovery led students to create an illustrated biography of a composer whose music is being widely celebrated around the world today. Their book Who is Florence Price? will be published by Schirmer Trade Books, part of Wise Music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8,20,25],"tags":[32569,32540,32467,30896,32572,1392,32570,32573,32568,32571],"class_list":["post-62472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-chicago-symphony-orchestra","tag-florence-b-price-2","tag-florence-beatrice-price","tag-florence-price","tag-kaufman-music-centers-special-music-school","tag-music","tag-schirmer-trade-books","tag-shannon-potts","tag-wise-music-classical","tag-wise-music-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472","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=62472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62485,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472\/revisions\/62485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}