• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Short Fuses
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Florence Price

Classical Album Reviews: “Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered” and New York Youth Symphony plays Price, Coleman, and Montgomery

Two first-rate albums: pianist Lara Downes successfully reconsiders Scott Joplin and the New York Youth Symphony plays Florence Price and others with panache.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Avie, Florence Price, Lara Downes, Michael Repper, New York Youth Symphony, Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered, Rising Sun, Scott Joplin

Classical Music Album: Florence Price — “Uncovered, Vol. 2”

This is an album that’s at once musically significant but, more than that, thoroughly enjoyable. How tragic that, largely on account of her race and gender, Florence Price’s music was almost erased.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Azica, Catalyst Quartet, Florence Price, Jonathan Blumhofer, Uncovered Vol 2

Classical Album Review: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 3

Florence Price’s voice and the richness and complexity of an almost-entirely neglected body of symphonic music by Black American composers can be heard in this excellent recording.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Deutsche Grammophon, Florence Price, Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Hand of Bridge, Aaron-Copland, Arthur Farwell, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Candide, Carrie Jacobs-Bonds, Florence Price, Irina Meachem, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Kurt-Weill, Leonard Bernstein, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Lucas Meachem, Medea, Ralph Locke, Ricky Ian Gordon, Rubicon RCD, Samuel Barber, Shall We Gather, Stephen Foster, William Grant Still

Classical Album Review: American Quintets — Why Has it Taken so Long?

This disc from the London-based Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective pairs piano quintets by Amy Beach and Florence Price with Samuel Barber’s haunting “Dover Beach.”

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American Quintets, Amy Beach, Chandos, Florence Price, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Classical CD Reviews: Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto, Project W

Arguably, the strongest entry in the BSO’s complete Shostakovich symphony cycle thus far; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2016 Cello Concerto is emotionally direct and, at times, simply gorgeous; the resurgence of interest in the music of Boston-educated composer Florence Price is a good thing.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cedille, Deutsche Grammophon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Florence Price, Sony Classical

Classical CD Reviews: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 4, George Antheil’s Symphonies nos. 3 & 6, and 20th-century Russian Orchestral Music

Fine recordings of symphonies by neglected American composers Florence Price and George Antheil; and a curious album from Cornelius Meister and the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Capriccio, Chandos, Cornelius Meister, Florence Price, George Antheil, Naxos, ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien

Rethinking the Repertoire #22 – Florence Price’s “Mississippi River Suite”

Composer Florence Price’s lack of acceptance into the American canon is shameful.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: African-American composer, Florence Price, Mississippi River Suite

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Film Commentary: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — The Most Serene Movie in Years This movie reminds us that -- if there is any meaning t... posted on May 7, 2022
  • Book Review: Thomas Mann in America In the US, Thomas Mann tacitly proposed himself as an a... posted on May 5, 2022
  • Jazz Album Review: Guitarist John Scofield — A Solo Album, Finally Now that he’s 70, it’s only right that guitarist John... posted on May 3, 2022
  • Jazz Album Review: “Charles Mingus Trio” — One Kind of Masterpiece Even without the new takes, this Rhino reissue would be... posted on May 2, 2022
  • Theater Review: “Sabina” — The Compelling Force of a Female Mind The musical's book, lyrics, and score are strong enough... posted on May 9, 2022

Social

Follow us:

Follow the Conversation

  • Steve Provizer May 13, 2022 at 10:26 am on Jazz Concert Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling — Going Through the World with CuriosityThanks, for your comment, Steve. Yes, he interpolated “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands” into a tune at...
  • Steve Crozier May 12, 2022 at 10:23 am on Jazz Concert Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling — Going Through the World with CuriositySteve, I just saw Mr Elling at the Blue Note in NYC. Same show, for the most part, it seems....
  • Charles Giuliano May 11, 2022 at 1:50 pm on Visual Arts Commentary: Paying Attention to Boston’s Jewish ExpressionistsBernard Chaet was a forceful painter who deserves wider critical recognition.
  • Charles Giuliano May 11, 2022 at 1:48 pm on Visual Arts Commentary: Paying Attention to Boston’s Jewish ExpressionistsI vividly recall the ICA show. It was under director Stephen Prokopoff who was interested in art history. The ICA...
  • Jeremy Ray Jewell May 10, 2022 at 7:36 am on Book Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’tThank you very much, Dr. Reed! It is always enlightening to read your words. I hope you and your loved...

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2022 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz