Florence Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
It is my sincere and heartfelt desire that any and all financial compensation that may be my due from this video presentation accrue instead to all holders of copyright. Should a change in copyright status or holder render its removal necessary, I ask only for immediate notification prior to the filing of a claim with KZread, and I will not hesitate to delete it as soon as possible.
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Symphony No. 3 in C minor
I. Andante - Allegro 0:00
II. Andante ma non troppo 10:41
III. Juba: Allegro 19:16
IV. Scherzo-Finale: Allegro 24:22
The Women's Philharmonic
Apo Hsu, conductor
Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953) was an American classical composer. She was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Florence Beatrice Smith was born to Florence Gulliver and James H. Smith on April 9, 1887, in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three children in a mixed-race family. Despite racial issues of the era, her family was well respected and did well within their community. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a music teacher who guided Florence's early musical training. She had her first piano performance at the age of four and went on to have her first composition published at the age of 11. By the time she was 14, Florence had graduated from Capitol High School at the top of her class and was enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music with a major in piano and organ. Initially, she pretended to be Mexican to avoid the prejudice people had toward African-Americans at the time. At the Conservatory, she was able to study composition and counterpoint with composers George Chadwick and Frederick Converse. Also while there, she wrote her first string trio and symphony. She graduated in 1906 with honors and both an artist diploma in organ and a teaching certificate. She taught in Arkansas briefly before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1910, where she became the head of Clark Atlanta University's music department. In 1912, she married Thomas J. Price, a lawyer, and moved back to Little Rock, Arkansas. After a series of racial incidents in Little Rock, particularly a lynching in 1927, the family moved to Chicago, where Florence Price began a new and fulfilling period in her compositional career. She studied composition, orchestration, and organ with the leading teachers in the city including Arthur Olaf Anderson, Carl Busch, Wesley La Violette, and Leo Sowerby, and published four pieces for piano in 1928. While in Chicago, Price was at various times enrolled at the Chicago Musical College, Chicago Teacher’s College, University of Chicago, and American Conservatory of Music, studying languages and liberal arts subjects as well as music. Financial struggles led to a divorce in 1931, and Florence became a single mother to her two daughters. To make ends meet, she worked as an organist for silent film screenings and composed songs for radio ads under a pen name. During this time, Price lived with friends and eventually moved in with her student and friend, Margaret Bonds, also a black pianist and composer. This friendship connected Price with writer Langston Hughes and contralto Marian Anderson, both prominent figures in the art world who aided in Price's future success as a composer. Together, Price and Bonds began to achieve national recognition for their compositions and performances. In 1932, both Price and Bonds submitted compositions for Wanamaker Foundation Awards. Price won first prize with her Symphony in E minor, and third for her Piano Sonata, earning her a $500 prize. Bonds came in first place in the song category, with a song entitled "Sea Ghost." The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frederick Stock, premiered the Symphony on June 15, 1933, making Price’s piece the first composition by an African-American woman to be played by a major orchestra. Price was inducted into the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in 1940 for her work as a composer. In 1949, Price published two of her spiritual arrangements, "I Am Bound for the Kingdom," and "I'm Workin’ on My Buildin'", and dedicated them to Marian Anderson, who performed them on a regular basis. On June 3, 1953, Price died from a stroke in Chicago, Illinois. Following her death, much of her work was overshadowed as new musical styles emerged that fit the changing tastes of modern society. Some of her work was lost, but as more African-American and female composers have gained attention for their works, so has Price. In 2001, the Women's Philharmonic created an album of some of her work. Pianist Karen Walwyn and The New Black Repertory Ensemble performed Price's "Concerto in One Movement" and "Symphony in E minor" in December 2011.
Пікірлер: 44
I wish more people were aware of great composers like Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds.
@leestamm3187
2 жыл бұрын
Heartily agreed. Others deserving greater notice include Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker, William Dawson and Undine Smith Moore.
Discovering treasures like this is what makes life worth living.
Although written in the European tradition, this music is uplifting and the American idiom is unmistakable. I'm so glad I discovered this while listening to Radio Swiss Classic!
I am so grateful to have read an article about Price in NYT. I will continue to listen to her music as it fills my heart!
A very powerful work as far as I am concerned. Another one lost among other powerful works, and probably also presuppositions of what constitutes music worth listening to. This one is worth visiting again and again.
Thanks for your uploads of Price and many other less known composers. Much appreciated.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of music with the world!
What a great piece! The tinges of jazz and polytonality probably make this her most forward looking symphony.
Only very little music from after 1900 do I care for, but I'm certainly enjoying Price's work. So glad I found her first symphony that you posted. I'll be hearing the others soon.
Lovely piece. She's well worth hearing!
Third mvt: 19:17 Second theme: 20:18 Trio slow: 21:26 Development: 22:20 Transition in to trio: 23:03 Ending: 24:11
Excelente composición,no conocía a esta gran compositora,bravo, gracias por compartir esta gran obra músical, saludos cordiales desde México 🇲🇽👌🌈
love the third movement has some nice jazz/swing elements
O segundo mov. nos mostra a alegria de viver, que deveria ser uma constante em todos nós, porque o sentimento exteriorizado é limitado pelas influencias
Right on
Listen to 'This weeks Composer' on Radio 3 from 2-6 March 2020 for more of her great music.
Juba is for a good and happy day!
At 11:12-11:25, the flute solo to me sounds like she quotes "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" but inverted.
@johannrufinatscha4210
3 жыл бұрын
I figured out how the inversion of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should go, and no, not quite. But it does seem like she fragmented it, and inverted some parts while leaving the others alone.
Anyone here because you heard about her on Encyclopedia Womannica?
좋아요
An interesting article that mentions her in some detail is "Master Pieces" in the Sept. 21, 2020 issue of the "New Yorker". It looks at the relationship of people of color as composers and symphony musicians to America's long emphasis on largely white classical and operatic music.
@wolfthiel1894
3 жыл бұрын
That one brought me here.
@buzz469
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, written by Alex Ross. That is what brought me here. Great read and I am glad I was able to find Florence Price on KZread. :)
@robhaskins
3 жыл бұрын
So unfortunate. This is a lovely and well orchestrated piece, well worth including in any survey of American music.
1:35
2:24
Only the third movement really stands up - quite attractive and humorous. The rest is a surprisingly square if competent academic mashup of Delius and Debussy. This is decent, but not great music: let's keep things in proportion. Pleasant to listen to once. Maybe her other works are better.
@augustusdavis7908
Жыл бұрын
However; let’s a have a conversation about Schubert’s unfinished Symphony
@robkeeleycomposer
Жыл бұрын
@@augustusdavis7908 Happy to - which one? :-)
@augustusdavis7908
Жыл бұрын
@@robkeeleycomposer which one ?? The unfinished one
@robkeeleycomposer
Жыл бұрын
@@augustusdavis7908 I'm not trying to be clever, but there are a few: the so-called 7th, completed by Brian Newbould, the 10th, also finished by BN, and a few very promising fragments. What would you care discuss re the 8th?
@augustusdavis7908
Жыл бұрын
@@robkeeleycomposer My inquiry here are the comment or comments mentioned here. To diminished the work of the composer. You are defining what high quality music should sound like. Price was trained as a musician and composer. Her compositions use European techniques but based on song, spirituals, and idioms of gospel and jazz, and reflects her southern roots (black people).Comparing Price to Delius or Debussy is not sufficient and invalid.
It's alright. I kept trying to imagine the picture she was painting and I kept coming up with a jumbled mess of images. Parts would be perfect background music for the cartoons of my youth and for various western films.
very good Longitude 127 Seoul Okinawa Soul Axis -- Bahai Faith Rael Jesus Huh kyung young Great secret
Wow, what a discovery. You know how the music of The Band has sort of a south-north feel, as compared to the east-west feel of say Kerouac. Well, this woman really, really gets the South deeply and the Midwest to a considerable extent. It's just in every note. And in a vast loving way. Ives also got it, but his music is confrontational, discordant, 3 bands playing at once. No really, he would go to county fairs as a kid, and stand in the point where 3 different bands playing in different parts of the field would have equal volume. That's America, he thought as a kid, and his music reflects that. Rimsky-Korsakov is considered one of the great orchestrators of all time, that is, using various instruments in creative and appropriate ways, for example his great masterpiece Scheherazade. A modern example of the importance of orchestration would be George Martin saying guys, nice song, In My life, maybe you could have a harpsichord solo in there, and the Beatles go what's a harpsichord, ooooooo cool, the result being a great distinctive hit. Anyway, it would be sooooo cool to see this woman and Rimsky-Korsakov have a 3-beer, maybe 3-glass of wine, conversation about orchestration. How instructive that would be! Entirely different approaches, both valuable, I think.
@Nogah100
3 жыл бұрын
"This woman"....? maybe Mr. Ives and Mr. Rimsky Korsakov are "this man"?....
The third movement is very interesting ...I also like the first....the second, for me, is boring...
No depth here.
1:32