Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 Fort Smith Symphony & John Jeter

• Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953): Symphony No. 1 in E Minor:
• 1 Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: I. Allegro ma non troppo 16:36
• 2 Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: II. Largo, maestoso 12:11
• 3 Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: III. Juba Dance 03:36
• 4 Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: IV. Finale 04:45
• Symphony No. 4 in D Minor:
• 5 Symphony No. 4 in D Minor: I. Tempo moderato 15:10
• 6 Symphony No. 4 in D Minor: II. Andante cantabile 05:40
• 7 Symphony No. 4 in D Minor: III. Juba Dance 05:13
• 8 Symphony No. 4 in D Minor: IV. Scherzo 05:24
• Total Runtime 01:08:35

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Florence Price was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and studied at the New England Conservatory, but it was in Chicago that her composing career accelerated. The concert in 1933 at which her Symphony No. 1 in E minor was premiered was the first time a major American orchestra had performed a piece written by an African American woman. Influenced by Dvorák and Coleridge-Taylor, she drew on the wellspring of Negro spirituals and vernacular dances, full of lyricism and syncopation. The Symphony No. 4 in D minor demonstrates her tight ensemble writing, her distinct sense of orchestral color, her Ellingtonian ‘jungle style’ language and her penchant for the ‘juba’ dance.

Fort Smith Symphony
John Jeter, conductor

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