Florence Price was celebrated in her day. But her untimely death in 1953, and the amount of music she composed but was never heard, helped dim her reputation over the years — until now.

A group of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students realized there was no children's book about the composer Florence Price. So they wrote, illustrated and published their own.

"Florence Price has been such an inspiration to me," Cann said. "I can't compare her to really anyone else because she writes ...

Composer Florence Price . A recent home remodel project in rural Illinois would have made for a great episode on HGTV. The house was a wreck. It hadn’t been occupied for years.

Florence Price's music has been brought to wider audiences in recent years A forgotten work by the pioneering composer Florence Price has been rediscovered and performed for the first time in ...

Florence Price (1887-1953) was the first Black American woman to have her music played by a major orchestra. (University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections) With a significant suddenness ...

Portrait of Florence Price (University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville / Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum) When Cann performed Price’s work with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2021, ...

With a significant suddenness, Florence Price has become recognized as a major American composer. Her First Symphony was given its premiere by the Chicago Symphony in 1933. As a piece composed by ...

Yes, the thought that even the great Florence Price blew a deadline once in a while is humbling. More than that, though, the scene presents a different, more communal vision of philanthropy.

Who was Florence Price? Florence was born in 1887 in Arkansas to a music teacher mother and a dentist father. Her mother encouraged her talented daughter in her musical studies and Florence eventually ...

As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. The work of Florence B. Price is having a renaissance, and new, foundational details about her life and racial identity are still being ...

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 ...