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    Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Born in Little...
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    Symphony in E minor is the first symphony written by the American composer Florence Price. The work was completed in 1932 and was first performed by the Chicago...
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    The Symphony No. 3 in C minor is a symphony for orchestra composed by Florence Price in 1938. The work was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration's...
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  • interpreter, advocate, and scholar of Florence B. Price and is noted as the first pianist to record the Florence Price Concerto in E minor for Piano along...
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    Florence Price Dwyer (July 4, 1902 – February 29, 1976) was an American Republican Party politician who represented much of Essex County, New Jersey in...
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    orchestral symphony by the American composer Florence Price. Composed in 1945, the work was never performed during Price's life and was presumed lost until it...
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    works. Composers (including William Grant Still, William L. Dawson and Florence Price) used poems written by African-American poets in their songs, and would...
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    Florence is usually a feminine given name. It is derived from the French version of (Saint) Florentia, a Roman martyr under Diocletian. The Latin florens...
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    Florence Agnes Henderson (February 14, 1934 – November 24, 2016) was an American actress. With a career spanning six decades, she is best known for her...
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  • inspired the musical settings "Four Songs from The Weary Blues" by Florence Price.) The Weary Blues Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and...
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  • Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and African-American musicians like Florence Price, who were significant contributors. During the beginnings of racial...
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    Theodore Taylor. At 13, she began studying with William Levi Dawson and Florence Price. Margaret's mother often hosted other Black musicians, artists, and...
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    by Nathaniel Dett. In the 1930s and 1940s, African American composer Florence Price drew inspiration from juba when composing her symphonies. Hambone was...
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  • screenwriter, and astrologer Florence Price (1887–1953), African-American classical composer Four Price, or Walter Thomas Price IV (born 1967), member of...
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    (piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Deutsche Grammophon (2018) Florence Price, Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Deutsche...
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  • Violin Odyssey (Itamar Zorman and Ieva Jokubaviciute) (A) Works By Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman (Michael Repper and New York Youth...
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    #1 Billboard Traditional Classical Chart: Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Florence Price (New York Youth Symphony) "Best Orchestral Performance...
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    The third season focuses on American composers, including Amy Beach, Florence Price, Aaron Copland, and contemporary composers Reena Esmail and Sergio Assad...
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  • African-American classical music. Brown authored books and academic treatises on Florence Price and William Grant Still. As a professor and administrator, Brown led...
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    Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that caused catastrophic damage in the Carolinas in September 2018, primarily as...
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    in 1928, and the stringed instruments were also sold at that time. Florence Price rose to prominence after winning First Prize in the Rodman Wanamaker...
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  • the young Bert Facey woos his future wife. African-American composer Florence Price included this melody as a movement in her "Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint"...
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    contained a trove of manuscripts by African-American composer Florence Price. The house had been Price's summer residence. The collection contained dozens of pieces...
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    The Florence Center is a 10,000-seat multipurpose arena in Florence, South Carolina. The arena was known as the Florence Civic Center until it rebranded...
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  • Foundation. Retrieved September 12, 2021. United States Congress. "DWYER, Florence Price (id: D000587)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress...
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    African-American composers William L. Dawson W. C. Handy James P. Johnson Florence Price List of jazz-influenced classical compositions Samuel Coleridge-Taylor...
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    Florence Price Frederick S. Converse Wallace Goodrich Henry Kimball Hadley John Patton Marshall Daniel Gregory Mason Horatio Parker [pupils] Florence...
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  • Prudence Neff (1887–1949), pianist and music teacher Marie Pavey, actress Florence Price (1887–1953), composer Julia Rebeil (1891–1973), pianist, professor at...
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    Pearl Peden Oldfield, first female from Arkansas elected to Congress Florence Price, classical composer, pianist, and music teacher Sister Rosetta Tharpe...
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    Jule Styne. Classical-music composers Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Florence Price, and Leonard Bernstein brought their compositions into the ASCAP repertory...
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