London Symphony Orchestra | Florence Price: Adoration // Principal Cello Rebecca Gilliver & Sophia Rahman @LondonSymphonyOrchestra | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Programme Note:
Florence Price was born in Little Rock Arkansas into a well-respected mixed-race family. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a music teacher. She began piano lessons with her mother aged four, and composed her first pieces at eleven. After moving with her husband to Chicago to escape the difficult racial situation of the Deep South, she became the first African American composer to have a piece played by a major US symphony orchestra.
Florence Price was a true pioneer. She was not only an African American working during a time of segregation, but she was also a woman, working within the male-dominated area of orchestral music. Luckily, she had a supportive family and came across very good teachers. Price often incorporated African American spirituals into her works thus honoring her own history, and she does so beautifully in Adoration.
This performance was recorded in 2021 at LSO St Luke's during a Relaxed Perforamnce Free Friday Lunchtime Concert. To learn more about our Friday Lunchtime Concerts head to lso.co.uk/free-friday-lunchtime-concerts
Rebecca Gilliver: cello
Sophia Rahman: piano
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Programme Note:
Florence Price was born in Little Rock Arkansas into a well-respected mixed-race family. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a music teacher. She began piano lessons with her mother aged four, and composed her first pieces at eleven. After moving with her husband to Chicago to escape the difficult racial situation of the Deep South, she became the first African American composer to have a piece played by a major US symphony orchestra.
Florence Price was a true pioneer. She was not only an African American working during a time of segregation, but she was also a woman, working within the male-dominated area of orchestral music. Luckily, she had a supportive family and came across very good teachers. Price often incorporated African American spirituals into her works thus honoring her own history, and she does so beautifully in Adoration.
This performance was recorded in 2021 at LSO St Luke's during a Relaxed Perforamnce Free Friday Lunchtime Concert. To learn more about our Friday Lunchtime Concerts head to lso.co.uk/free-friday-lunchtime-concerts
Rebecca Gilliver: cello
Sophia Rahman: piano
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Website: lso.co.uk
Apple Music: geni.us/yH0sXY
Spotify: spoti.fi/291cCk0
LSO Live: lsolive.lso.co.uk
