Price: Songs of the Oak

Featuring

John Jeter
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Florence Beatrice Price

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Recording & Production

The pieces on this album are recorded together for the first time, following the rediscovery of their scores in 2009.

Composition History

Price's family relocated to Chicago in 1927 due to pervasive racist violence, shortly after she won national contests for her solo piano pieces.

Composer Biography

Florence B. Price, a prolific composer, was also a virtuoso pianist and organist, and a distinguished pedagogue.

Notable Performances

Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered Price's Symphony in E minor in June 1933, launching her career in orchestral music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Price refined a distinctive musical language honoring her African American cultural heritage, incorporating elements like spirituals and reinterpretations of the Juba dance.

Composer Biography

Price dedicated the first 20 years of her professional career to teaching African American students in segregated southern academies and her private piano studio.

Composition History

The scores for most of the pieces on this release were virtually unknown after Price's death until they were recovered from her former summer home in 2009.