Week 4 - Piece of the Week 2 - Florence Price, Symphony No.1
You will need to set up your Nkoda to access the parts, for information on how to do this please use the following link:
https://moodle.rncm.ac.uk/moodle/mod/page/view.php?id=56151
Florence Price, Symphony No.1 in E minor
2p+2222 / 4231 / T3P /
str
https://www.nkoda.com/playlist?ref=d858ebbb-b5ed-4f28-b836-89cd8c42ade1
Who was Florence Price?
Florence Price was the first African-American woman symphonist and the first whose music was considered worthy of being performed by a major orchestra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
Article about her life and a little bit on her first Symphony: https://www.classical-music.com/features/composers/guide-florence-price/
Website: http://www.florenceprice.org/
Florence Price was Radio 3’s Composer of the Week:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p085rvjw
& 3rd movement of Symphony No.1 has been used as part of BBC Ten Pieces
As part of Black History Month, Performance & Programming are putting on two
public- facing events on 27 and 29 Oct:
Live Q&A with Chi-chi Nwanoku (https://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/insights-2/) ,
SVSO Thursday Late (https://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/thursday-lates-5/).
If you want to find out more about black classical composers and musicians and you haven't already seen it, have a look at 'Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History' on BBC iplayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000n18w/black-classical-music-the-forgotten-history