FLORENCE B. PRICE: Piano Concerto in One Movement (1934) - First Section
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2011
- Karen Walwyn, piano
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, Leslie B. Dunner, conductor
from Albany TROY1295
www.albanyrecords.com
The groundbreaking Symphony and reconstructed piano concerto by Florence Price are given splendid performances.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Florence B. Price (1887-1953) studied at the New England Conservatory, the Chicago Musical College and the American Conservatory. Price composed throughout her life, producing as many as 300 compositions. In the 1930s and early 1940s some of her longer works were performed by music groups sponsored by the WPA in Illinois and Michigan. Price was highly visible as a teacher, performer and organizer in Chicago's concert and church music spheres. Her Concerto in One Movement for piano was premiered in Chicago in 1934 with Price herself as pianist. There is no evidence of the piece being performed after the 1930s and there are no copies of the composer's manuscript of the orchestral score. Composer Trevor Weston was commissioned to reconstruct the concerto's orchestration in order to revive this deserving work. Price's groundbreaking Symphony in E Minor was the first prize winner of the 1932 Rodman Wanamaker Music Contest and was premiered in 1933 by Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is the first work by a black woman to be performed by a major symphony orchestra in the United States.
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Florence B. Price, composer
Concerto in One Movement
Karen Walwyn, piano, New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, Leslie B. Dunner, conductor
Florence B. Price, composer
Symphony in E Minor
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, Leslie B. Dunner, conductor - เพลง
Oh, man, another one I've never heard but instantly love. I hear a familiar short theme hear - it's just a small part of this beautiful, short piece, but to me, it's kind of like her "stamp" , or her "seal" - this piece is just SO Florence Price- it couldn't be anyone else. I'm getting so familiar with her, now, and I can't even say how beautiful it is to have a composer that I've only even *known* about for maybe 2 years - and an *American* one, and a such a *wonderful* one.
Elijah you are wonderful pianist. Keep creating beautiful music. The world needs you!
I am moved to tears by this piece. OMG, where is the rest as was asked by doogienahnah? I feel so ashemed because I have put my composing on hold for the bast 7 years playing World of Warcraft. I have not been inspired until now to run back begging the Most High to forgive me and fill my cup again with this kind of beauty.
Please compose again!
Who or what is doogienahnah? and what is World of Warcraft?
GO for it. It is elusive
This is absolutely stunning. WHY is this woman not known the world over?
Well its male dominated market frankly
Firstly, she's "black." Secondly, she's a woman. Thirdly, the Caucasians write their narrative. The End. 😊
She certainly deserves being heard. The music is powerful, emotional, and highly entertaining!
It would be wonderful if more people were familiar with Ms. Price. She had a great talent and something important to contribute.
Enchanting...I heard it on WFMT and closed my eyes to listen. I was amazed to find out a Woman wrote it, and then after all was said and done, a Black Woman in 1934. Wow! I'm so grateful I stumbled across this piece. I've order the complete Concert and cannot wait to hear it again.
Very Beautiful. Economical and great timing. F.B. Price certainly knew what she was doing. Thanks much.
very beautiful music...never heard...incredible, who knows that ? the more i hear that, the more i appreciate it...
Wonderful piece. A much overlooked American composer of great stature.
Concerto pour piano à ranger parmi les oeuvres majeures.
Absolutely love this - was just introduced to Price's work via BBC Radio 3.
me too....
What an incredible joy to listen to this piece. What lush orchestration!
This is music of exquisite elegance and authority. It MUST be heard wherever classical music is played. And as other people have commented - where's the rest of this brilliant composer's work?
This is a horribly late response, but the Fort Smith Symphony just last year released fairly good recordings of her 1st and 4th Symphonies and in 2017, Yale's orchestra recorded a decent rendition of her 3rd.
Listening to classical music for 30 years now, I did not hear of William Grant Still until 2015, and I just heard of William Dawson and Florence Price within the past month - all Black composers. That doesn't seem a coincidence to me. I love the music of all three composers!
@@lancepeterson2099 Its no coincidence--keep digging there is so much out there. Dig and share! I am also just amazed at what I am finding--can't believe how much great music is new to me and not at all new!
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@Kase Jayden Instablaster ;)
I would love too learn more about miss Florence B Price
From the New Yorker: February 5, 2018: "In 2009, Vicki and Darrell Gatwood, of St. Anne, Illinois, were preparing to renovate an abandoned house on the outskirts of town. The structure was in poor condition: vandals had ransacked it, and a fallen tree had torn a hole in the roof. In a part of the house that had remained dry, the Gatwoods made a curious discovery: piles of musical manuscripts, books, personal papers, and other documents. The name that kept appearing in the materials was that of Florence Price. The Gatwoods looked her up on the Internet, and found that she was a moderately well-known composer, based in Chicago, who had died in 1953. The dilapidated house had once been her summer home."
She was self-described as having two strikes against her. One was being a woman, the other having negro blood in her veins.
incredibible.... thanks for the story !
This is outstanding!!!!
Wish I knew more about this music and its composer!!!!
i wasn't expecting to be moved like this. this is incredible.
To be broadcast tonight BBC 4 Proms concert.
Love this music. Heard Florence Price on WCPE.
This is a spectacular work! Wow!
Beautiful :)
Bravo!!
2:45-5:04 is some of the best music I've ever heard.
Oh my god, how have I never heard of this brilliant composer before? This concerto is fucking stunning!
Beautiful music but please do not overlook two BRITISH composers of African descent: Amanda Ira Aldridge (aka Montague Ring) (1866-1956), daughter of the African American Shakesperean actor Ira Aldridge, and Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998), daughter of the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Both Amanda and Avril began composing in the early part of the last century, and their stories are included in Stephen Bourne's award winning book Black Poppies - Britain's Black Community & the Great War (The History Press, 2014) with rare photos of them. Neither has their music released on CD but I have heard some of Amanda's music on an old recording and its sounds similar to Ms Price's music.
Where can we hear their music
un des plus beau concerto pour piano que j'ai entendu: un mouvement qui résume toute une oeuvre (oeuvre: c'est pas facile à écrire ce genre de truc , je compatis avec tous les francophones ou ceux qui écrivent en français😊)
Image creating a piece that was only one movement long but people still split it into movements. (The performance was really good, but I wanted to harass).
One can sure hear gospel influence here
She wrote well, very well, while for its time, 1934. there is nothing remotely contemporary sounding about this music. It is very 'non-news' music for its time.
True enough for 1934, yet posterity cares less about precedence and more about artistry as distance increases. Both Glenn Gould writing on Richard Strauss and Alex Ross writing on Price herself have suggested ways to best appreciate the anachronistic in music.
saccharine....i just can`t get with it, sorry....