Composer Julia Wolfe at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra's world premiere of her piece Her Story on Sept. 15, 2022. Kurt Heinecke/Nashville Symphony hide caption
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Florence Price
USA. Mississippi. Tunica. 1985. © Eli Reed/Magnum Photos hide caption
Three of the student authors of Who Is Florence Price? (left to right: Sebastián Núñez, Hazel Peebles and Sophia Shao), joined by their English teacher, Shannon Potts. Courtesy of Special Music School hide caption
These NYC kids have written the history of an overlooked Black female composer
Marian Anderson's story reveals a longstanding legacy of black women amplifying black women's perspectives through the politics of concert performance. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
Florence Price was the first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra. Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries hide caption
Two of Florence Price's Violin Concertos, considered lost for decades, have been newly recorded. G. Nelidoff/Florence Price Papers, University or Arkansas Libraries hide caption
The (No Longer) Lost Concertos Of Florence Price
In 1933, Florence B. Price was the African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. University of Arkansas Libraries hide caption