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The Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra will feature a Livestream Concert with the Music of Florence Price
On March 4 at 7 p.m., the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra will feature a livestream concert on Facebook featuring the music of Florence Beatrice (Smith) Price. Learn more about the upcoming performance written by Karen Budai from the Tehachapi News here.
Read about Marian Anderson: Musical Icon, who championed the music of Florence Price, by Eleanor Roosevelt
From the collection : Women in American History, read about Marian Anderson, a champion of the music by Florence Price written by Eleanor roosevelt here. Anderson is pictured above singing "the star Spangled Banner" at the dedication of a mural
Lift Every Voice: Marian Anderson, Florence B. Price and the Sound of Black Sisterhood by Alisha Lola Jones
From NPR, check out this article by Dr. Alisha Lola Jones from the University of Indiana on Marian Anderson and Florence Price. Marian Anderson's sotry reveals a longstanding legacy of black women amplifying black women's perspective through the politics of
Watch Emmy and Peabody Award winner Rita Coburn’s New Documentary “American Masters”!
Watch the New Documentary on Singer and Civil Rights Icon Marian Anderson in Production for American Masters in association with Black Public Media directed by Emmy- and Peabody Award- winner Rita Coburn. Learn more about the documentary here. Read more
Performing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Identity in Interwar Central Europe by Dr. Kira Thurman
Read on the subject of racial conflicts with regards to black performance of European music relative to the turn of the century during the period of time Florence Price written by Kira Thurman from the University of Michigan here.
On the subject of Charlotte Andrews (Lottie) Stephens by Sondra Gordy
Read about one of the greatest influences of Florence Price, Ms. Charlotte Andrews, written by Professor Sondra Gordy from the University of Central Arkansas here. Ms. Charlotte Stephens, seen above, was Ms. Price primary teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas.