I agree ;)

Seems to be happening. Her album is the album of the week on the classical music station in the DC~VA~MD area this week. Recently learned that University of Maryland College Park will hold a Florence Price festival in the summer...increased offering of her music at schools and concert halls will raise awareness of her skill and offering.

I heard her "Ethiopa shadow in America", performed in Manchester 2 weeks ago probably a first for the Halle Orchestra..and certainly the first piece I have heard of Florence Price, live..I have been searching out her works, and have her 1st and 4th symphonies(the 3rd to be released on the 26 Nov..on NAXOS).she wrote 2 violin concertos and a single movement piano concerto, which I think received its premiere performance at this years BBC Proms...amnogst other orchestral and solo piano works, and maybe some quartets too..I always fine women composers have very much neglected in the past, but it seems they are slowly being recognised, what we need is committing them to disc,to be more widely available..and appreciated..

I heard her on BBC Radio 3 today. She will be a familiar name in a short while.

+Marco Vega I would diagree with you on this. She is obviously very deeply influenced by Dvorak, who was from Check Republic, but he himself was again influenced by African American music, Indian chants etc. I don't feel that she is crossing any borders from classical framework here.

This piece draws heavily on spirituals which are an American genre. I agree with Marco, this is rooted firmly in the American tradition even if it borrows from a European toolkit.

100%!

@@iam18853 he didn't say devoid of European influence but rather beyond it, meaning extending past as if going to the line and then carrying on in a definitively American way.

Is the sheet music available anywhere?

how cool to be a copyist for such important work!! Congrats.

You must be very proud. God knows, I would be!

Where is this music available?

@@mccpesh Now it is available through G. Schirmer.

I wonder if Florence Prince knew Louis Armstrong? Would that have been cool!

YES DVORAK all the way!!

@@yarygork2334 -- No, as much Virgil Thompson and Copeland as well...but these are all minor influences....She speaks her own mind! Brava from San Agustinillo!

I also heard the spiritual, Let My People Go, in there (leading up to around 20:00), and others I can't name offhand.

Amazing. I was telling a fellow Indian music prof last night that her Symphony No. 1 was partly reminiscent of the great Czech composer's 9th/"From The New World". He concurred.

Dvorak ... for sure, especially in her Symphony #1. Also, some Delius "Florida Suite". Dv's impact on American music at the time must have been enormous. Also, hear in Dass' work.

No, she is quoting that spiritual. Also, Deep River and Go Down Moses.

i hear that too yep at about 9:30

nobody else hears our troubles?

Many traditional Negro spirituals are quoted in this fine work

No, you're not hallucinating, it's clearly in there, and I sang along :)

I am seeing more female composers of the African diaspora and other origins appearing on performance programs and posted recordings.

yes, it begins fortunately....we don't have so many creative persons on this earth.... a very large number of us is not able to create anything, or leave something to human culture; so any contribution is precious, i think like this.

In addition, I heard "Deep River" and "Go Down, Moses." There may have been others, but the inclusion of them is such a phenomenal way to honor the great contribution of spirituals to American music and culture.

I think she is an original and draws from her own unique background and American folk tradition. So beautiful and brings tears. A genius!

@@senojah Holly: Thanks for the reply. I enjoy many kinds of music, thanks to the incredible variety of same we are able to enjoy thru sources like KZfaq. We have never had a time in our collective histories, where talents like hers are so available to everyone. Her attitude makes this white guy want to cheer!

That's Frederick Delius. Florida Suite is my all-time favorite music.

Did you have any luck?

Kevin Withell I found three scores on IMSLP

Schirmer---expensive

Yes, esp Copland.

Yes, it's around 9:40!

And "Go Down Moses" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"

She weaves many of our songs into this piece. Quite delightful.

Or vice versa ?

more probably as she was born before him, it should be in the other sense, or in no sense. It is not obligatory.. the music of Copland has also a lot of influences...

Composers who seek to recover melodic coherence after some often-unwise and un-musical digressions into the avant-garde are wise to look anew to the melodic attractiveness of folk traditions. Florence Price is no musical innovator, but is that a bad thing?

@@paulbrower3297 Did you not read my last sentence? What made you think I disapproved of the use of folk music? READ my remarks again.

@@ThePepperh I did. One need not be a musical innovator to be a fine composer. I do not recognize 'modernity' as an excuse for bad music-making. My criticism is of other composers whose innovations fall short of her level of composition. It is of course possible to be both innovative and excellent in music.Just think of Haydn and Chopin! I am delighted to have discovered her music which stands well on its own.

@@paulbrower3297 Odd that this should come up right now. I am working on a novel where a composition teacher tells the class about the use of folk music. I quote: “One very useful source which has provided endless and rich inspiration is folk music. Anything from a fragment of seven or eight notes to the whole song. That one about a birch tree in Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies. Nineteen of them! Or Percy Grainger’s transcription of folk songs into symphonic expression. A composer can become fixated on a piece by someone else and write something new altogether using the same melody. Like Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis." In fact my working title is Siuil a Run, as that old Gaelic song figures in the development of the story. Are you a musician?

KVIE has just done a special on her

o' really when and where at, what channel,

KVIE it's the local channel here in California. I'm sure you could finite on their site

She was the subject of a recent documentary called "The Caged Bird". The DVD is available to buy here: thecagedbirddoc.weebly.com/

Both of her parents were African-American. According to America's historical standards even 1/2 is "Black". Ancestry's DNA banks revealed many African Americans have several European male ancestors -- yet African Americans are all considered "Black". So annoying that being excellent causes people to diminish one's African ancestry...🙄