have two handicaps – those of sex and race. I am a woman; and I have some Negro blood in my veins.’ Florence Price’s assessment of her standing as a classical composer was all too accurate. Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas, into a mixed-race family of African-American descent, she spent much of her professional life grappling with what one writer has
Florence Price’s Symphony makes history in Chicago
May 17, 2022
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