Florence Price

[lennygoran]

I never heard of this woman-wouldn't mind listening to some of the works in the article when we get back from Florida. Len

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/arts ... collection

[Rach3]

Music of Florence Price, Albany cd, her Piano Concerto and Symphony in E Minor heard today :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ54dddRI08 ( Concerto )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgJ1Ok ... kjnaI&t=18 (Sym.)

Pleasant listening, if probably a one-hear for me.

[lennygoran]

Music of Florence Price, Albany cd, her Piano Concerto and Symphony in E Minor heard today :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ54dddRI08 ( Concerto )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgJ1Ok ... kjnaI&t=18 (Sym.)

Pleasant listening, if probably a one-hear for me.

Thanks-will give it a try when we get back from lisbon and madrid. Len

[Belle]

That picture is stunning, Len!! As with Vienna, how do people in these old cities manage to live life without trees and shrubs? There isn't one in that picture and you often see this in Europe. I couldn't live without greenery. You'd know what I mean. At the moment Spring is here and our hundreds of trees are filled with beautiful, busy birds and their hungry babies.

[lennygoran]

Belle thanks-they do have plenty of castles-we saw a great one today just outside of lisbon! Len

[Rach3]

Music of Florence Price, Albany cd, her Piano Concerto and Symphony in E Minor heard today :
Pleasant listening, if probably a one-hear for me.

Her brief 2nd Violin Concerto was a two-hear for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUp3hICG3Og

[Modernistfan]

I heard some of her music yesterday, in particular her First Violin Concerto and the symphonic poem "The Oak." Her music is very well made but extremely conservative for the period; I could not hear a trace of jazz or ragtime, and could hear no influence of any contemporary idioms, such as neoclassicism. The major influences seem to be Brahms and Dvorak. It is interesting that European composers such as Ravel, Milhaud, Martinu, and Schulhoff were already mixing jazz with neoclassicism, but Ms. Price appeared to be immune to such influences.

[Rach3]

Her music is very well made but extremely conservative for the period; I could not hear a trace of jazz or ragtime, and could hear no influence of any contemporary idioms, such as neoclassicism.

I have not heard the 2 works you mentioned, but yes, conservative,nostagiac,often pastoral. I think there are some jazz, spiritual elements in her Piano Concerto and 1st Symphony in E minor.