On Monday, July 6th, Voices Unheard founder Camille Jones hosted a live discussion with 2020 Sphinx Orchestral Futurist Fellow at the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, Chaz Salazar, and founder and Executive Director of the arts organization Play on Philly, Stanford Thompson. In this panel discussion, they spoke about the evolution of classical music in light of the global awakening around systemic racism and how young arts leaders can effect change.
Florence Price (1887-1953) - String Quartet in G, II. Andante ModeratoFlorence Price was the first African-American woman to win widespread recognition as a symphonic composer, gaining considerable fame in the 1930s. An accomplished composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher, Price wrote over 300 compositions in her lifetime. Her Symphony No. 1 in was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under German music director Frederick Stock during Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition. This concert also featured works by Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and John Alden Carpenter.
Please enjoy our performance of the second movement of her String Quartet in G!