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..
+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.
@@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.
I may be wrong, but Florence Price was first heard on WQXR with a 10 am. host, and now Florence is finally getting the recognition she deserves-70 years later😮
Just found out about her through a Sunday paper. I can hear Dvorak in there also (Ursule, below), and was just listening to her Sonata in E minor. I guess there's a lot of influences, but ultimately returned to a landscape and drama of America. Inspiring, stirring music.
@@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!
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.
Inspirierend. Ein Werk, das mich an Richard Strauss' Alpensymphonie erinnert. Ich staune wie kunstvoll Florence Price lautmalerisch verschiedene Motive verarbeitet darunter auch Gospel-Motive. Einfach genial. Dieses Werk sollte zum Repertoire der großen Klassik-Orchester gehören. Es ist einfach nur immens kreativ und positiv stimmend, erhebend. Inspiring. 😃A work that reminds me of Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony. I marvel at how skilfully Florence Price uses various onomatopoeic motifs, including gospel motifs. Simply brilliant. This work should be part of the repertoire of the great classical orchestras. It is simply immensely creative and positively uplifting.
She morphs it into a whole new piece at about 5:00 I see snow capped mountains when i close me eyes With tint spring flowers popping up. What a great piece for motion picture soundtrack!! .
The tune quoted in the suite is Nobody knows the trouble I feel, a famous gospel. Very nice music, which deserve to be performed, like so many pieces by women composers.
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.
Revisiting this score. Reminds me Florida Suite of Frederick Darius, also a quite strong descriptive piece. It works very well as an introduction/visit card, ie to find and listen to more works. Thank you.
I don't care if it's called " '43 Hudson Recall", it's still one of those pieces and artists that I have liked right away. Philosophically, I find it very hard to compare any composer to another.
@@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 TH-cam. 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!
I'm wondering: Did Dvorak, in From the New World, take from Florence Price & Amy Beach, (was influenced by their music), or did they take from him? o.k. so here is: Dvorak wrote From the New World in 1893. Price wrote her Mississipi Suite in 1934. Amy Beach wrote her concerto in 1900. So yes, it seems HE was the influencer.
What? All you people noticing Nobody Knows... at the 20 min mark, you all passed right over another little folk tune at 13:30 "Git Along Little Dogies"!! Listen to a very young Roy Rogers sing it on TH-cam with the Sons of the Pioneers. You mis-identified the tune at 20 min anyway. That is Deep River, a little tune from Dvorjak's Largo in his New World Symphony that went Negro spiritual and choral concert piece over 100 years ago. It has long been a perfectly acceptable practice for composers to insert folk tunes in their homages to places.
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?
@@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?
It always annoys me that so many people fall all over themselves trying to find "influences" as if that qualifies as astute music criticism. Why not sit back and just listen for a change ?
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...
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...🙄
Of course there is a strong European DNA ! Actually a Balkanized orchestral DNA. And so what ? What is the need of labelling "nationalisms" in symphonic music ? The XIX Century is over.... Very good piece, indeed altough with an etra use of metals in detriment of the strings (Smetana´s style ?).. But FLORIDA Suite and Grand Canyon Suite come to my mind and remain the strongest links of music inspired in American landscapes.
Estamos ouvindo, o que na música, as mulheres tem a dizer e, acreditem, elas dizem muito bem!... Vamos prestigia-las?... Vamos ouvi-las com mais frequência? Vamos abandonar esse machismo idiota de que apenas os homens são capazes?...
It is music like this that raises the question "What makes great music great?" This is nice, user-friendly music but it isn't great, not even close. There is a surprisingly small number of supremely great composers. Florence was a talented lady, but she doesn't qualify for the Hall of Fame. Maybe the problem is Mississippi...
So beautiful and reflective. Such a talented composer. Her work should become better known through public performances.
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.
Finally! A Star Wars movie for people who don't like Star Wars!
😂😂😂
Thank you for posting this! I was the copyist for this work back around the millenium, but I've never heard it live! What a gift!
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.
Beautiful work! Her musical language denotes the American musical tradition beyond the classical European framework.
+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.
I may be wrong, but Florence Price was first heard on WQXR with a 10 am. host, and now Florence is finally getting the recognition she deserves-70 years later😮
Just found out about her through a Sunday paper. I can hear Dvorak in there also (Ursule, below), and was just listening to her Sonata in E minor. I guess there's a lot of influences, but ultimately returned to a landscape and drama of America. Inspiring, stirring music.
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.
The American composer Ferde Grofe famous for the Grand Caynon Suite also wrote a Mississippi Suite. Interesting to compare.
Inspirierend.
Ein Werk, das mich an Richard Strauss' Alpensymphonie erinnert. Ich staune wie kunstvoll Florence Price lautmalerisch verschiedene Motive verarbeitet darunter auch Gospel-Motive. Einfach genial. Dieses Werk sollte zum Repertoire der großen Klassik-Orchester gehören. Es ist einfach nur immens kreativ und positiv stimmend, erhebend.
Inspiring.
😃A work that reminds me of Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony. I marvel at how skilfully Florence Price uses various onomatopoeic motifs, including gospel motifs. Simply brilliant. This work should be part of the repertoire of the great classical orchestras. It is simply immensely creative and positively uplifting.
The comfort of this music is irreplaceable, and soothes my soul
I love how just when it really seems an evocation of a sparkling American landscape, it's also quoting "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen."
I wonder if Florence Prince knew Louis Armstrong? Would that have been cool!
She morphs it into a whole new piece at about 5:00 I see snow capped mountains when i close me eyes With tint spring flowers popping up. What a great piece for motion picture soundtrack!! .
Gorgeous. Peace and calm with danger all around.
... nice work of a great (female) composer ... very inspired performers... wonderful pictures ... many thanks... an European lister (Germany)
Gracias por compartir la música de esta excelente compositora.
Thanks to Las Vegas Classical (89.7) Station that while driving from Vegas to Pahrump I heard this incredible piece of Americana.
Beautiful and dramatic portrait of one of the world's great rivers.
very interesting music, rich of colours...thank for posting compositions of these american artist because discography is a disaster.. beautiful film..
I feel how beautiful America is, and a touch of of black spiritual/ Grofe style God bless America
A gifted composer. Thanks for posting.
Beautiful! I want to hear more of her work.
Everyone inspires everyone - that's the beauty of good music
Ein wunderbares Stück.
I keep hearing parts of the melody from "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"... maybe I am hallucinating
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 :)
The tune quoted in the suite is Nobody knows the trouble I feel, a famous gospel. Very nice music, which deserve to be performed, like so many pieces by women composers.
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.
Very nice piece. Reflective of the nature and moods of the Mississippi River.
Revisiting this score. Reminds me Florida Suite of Frederick Darius, also a quite strong descriptive piece. It works very well as an introduction/visit card, ie to find and listen to more works. Thank you.
That's Frederick Delius. Florida Suite is my all-time favorite music.
heard this at the Jefferson city orchestra. sounds real nice
I don't care if it's called " '43 Hudson Recall", it's still one of
those pieces and artists that I have liked right away.
Philosophically, I find it very hard to compare any composer to another.
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 TH-cam. 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!
Beautiful tone poem! Thanks!
I love the piece!🎵
Excited to study this one!
I like that it also has suspense in it.
Listen for "Tell ol' Pharaoh, let my people go" abt 20 minutes in.
I'm wondering: Did Dvorak, in From the New World, take from Florence Price & Amy Beach, (was influenced by their music), or did they take from him? o.k. so here is: Dvorak wrote From the New World in 1893. Price wrote her Mississipi Suite in 1934. Amy Beach wrote her concerto in 1900. So yes, it seems HE was the influencer.
A lovely work!! I'll start looking for a score and parts!!
Did you have any luck?
Kevin Withell I found three scores on IMSLP
Schirmer---expensive
Inspirational!
Divine inspiration!
In some ways reminds me of Ferde Grofe, and Copeland's "Rodeo"
Yes, esp Copland.
stunning
Delightful!
she is a musical peinter and has a very interesting musical dramaturgical sens
22:22 "Deep River"
What? All you people noticing Nobody Knows... at the 20 min mark, you all passed right over another little folk tune at 13:30 "Git Along Little Dogies"!! Listen to a very young Roy Rogers sing it on TH-cam with the Sons of the Pioneers. You mis-identified the tune at 20 min anyway. That is Deep River, a little tune from Dvorjak's Largo in his New World Symphony that went Negro spiritual and choral concert piece over 100 years ago. It has long been a perfectly acceptable practice for composers to insert folk tunes in their homages to places.
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?
Beautiful!
19:51 ¿Otra vez "Deep River"?
Was I mistaken or did I hear "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've seen" in it somewhere?
Yes, it's around 9:40!
16:52 Espiritual negro "Deep River"
This slaps.
It always annoys me that so many people fall all over themselves trying to find "influences" as if that qualifies as astute music criticism. Why not sit back and just listen for a change ?
19:14 ¿Un Juba dance?
thanks very much to Beethoven for this fine musika a la musicka!!!
Brilliant, = Dvorak status and where left off.
Laat ons een bloem (Louis Neefs) start op 13:23 ;-)
I wonder if any of her music was inspired by the works of Aaron Copland
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...
Deeply inspired by Deep River.
And "Go Down Moses" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
She weaves many of our songs into this piece. Quite delightful.
very good
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Great secret
Buy she was only half black.What does that make her?
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...🙄
I want to root for her too. I dont see much here.
Of course there is a strong European DNA ! Actually a Balkanized orchestral DNA. And so what ? What is the need of labelling "nationalisms" in symphonic music ? The XIX Century is over.... Very good piece, indeed altough with an etra use of metals in detriment of the strings (Smetana´s style ?).. But FLORIDA Suite and Grand Canyon Suite come to my mind and remain the strongest links of music inspired in American landscapes.
I WOULD LOVE TOO NO MORE ABOUT FLORENCE B PRICE.
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/
Derivative of Dvořák.
Estamos ouvindo, o que na música, as mulheres tem a dizer e, acreditem, elas dizem muito bem!... Vamos prestigia-las?... Vamos ouvi-las com mais frequência? Vamos abandonar esse machismo idiota de que apenas os homens são capazes?...
It is music like this that raises the question "What makes great music great?" This is nice, user-friendly music but it isn't great, not even close. There is a surprisingly small number of supremely great composers. Florence was a talented lady, but she doesn't qualify for the Hall of Fame. Maybe the problem is Mississippi...