In a New York Times story by Samantha Ege and Douglas Shadle, two musicologists who are working on a biography of Florence B. Price, new research about the Little Rock composer is revealed. In ...

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Classical music, like so many art forms, requires two conditions: a steady flow of capital and preserving belief in the existence of singular, anachronistic genius. As scholar-pianist Samantha Ege ...

“Memory Mist” is an early advanced piano piece by Florence Price, and was compiled as part of a set titled “Seven Miniatures.” The three-page piece is expressive and romantic in feeling, with the 20th ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Black Hall of Fame just hosted their annual ceremony that saw the induction of a new class of historic black Arkansans. Two past inductees were Florence Price and ...

Dance of the Cotton Blossoms is an early advanced piece written by Florence Price in 1938. This piece is not to be confused with another piece by Price which shares the same title, but was written in ...

The U.S. Army Field Band and Canadian Armed Forces honored Florence Price, the first African-American woman composer to have her work performed by a major U.S. orchestra. Born in 1887, Price blended ...

Two Philadelphia musicians are headed to Los Angeles for the 2025 Grammy Awards, where their collaborative album has earned a nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. "Florence Price has been ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two works by these composers have been marginalized in classical music, but they were never forgotten, as their histories show. By Sarah Fritz and A.