Florence Price: A life for children
mainStudents at Kaufman Music Center in New York have written and illustrated a biography of the rediscovered African-American composer Florence Price.
The book, originally self-published as a classroom project, ‘tells the story of a brilliant musician who prevailed against race and gender prejudices.’ Schirmer will bring out a commercial edition next month.
Exciting!
Thanks for the heads-up, NL!
“Who is Florence Price” the cover asks.
She was a minor church organist who studied with a few minor composers, and wrote a few derivative works that were quickly forgotten. Until she became a convenient PR tool for woke orchestral administrators who lie awake nights in terror of BLM.
Not more.
You couldn’t be farther from the truth.
You are delusional and probably never even heard a note of her music
Actually, yes, I heard. There is nothing special in it.
Florence Price apparently lived very comfortably and was well respected in the “those racist” times. I wonder what would she go through nowadays, pretending that she is non-black!!?
I bet you love Carl Orff, you tasteless joke of a person
She must have been more than that if you feel so threatened by her.
Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony recently played one of her major works. Count them among the woke.
The Takacs Quartet recently performed and recorded her Piano Quartet. More woke suckers, I guess.
How brave in our woke and racist day and time!! Bravo!
Meanwhile, your username tells us everything we need to know about you. Bye now.
You’re overstating it a bit, but she is kind of a lightweight. Nice tunes, but not too deep. She’s like a lot of midcentury American composers, pretty forgettable.
FYI, this is a children’s book, and the first children’s book about this great American composer. This is wonderful news.