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The work was completed in 1932 and was first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Frederick Stock in June 1933. The piece was Price's first full-scale orchestral composition and was the first symphony by a Black woman to be performed by a major American orchestra. [1] [2] [3]
Florence Beatrice Smith was born to Florence (Gulliver) and James H. Smith on April 9, 1887, in Little Rock, Arkansas, [4] one of three children in a mixed-race family. Her father was the only African-American dentist in the city, and her mother was a music teacher who guided Florence's early musical training. [5]
Price entered the studio of Florence Page Kimball in the fall of 1948. [9] While studying at Juilliard that year, she lived in the Harlem YWCA, which was safe and affordable accommodation open to black women. [11]: 72 In her second year, she heard Ljuba Welitsch sing Salome from the standing-room section at the Met and became fascinated by opera.
It was first performed at the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 6, 1940, by the Detroit Civic Orchestra under the conductor Valter Poole. The composition is Price's third symphony, following her Symphony in E minor—the first symphony by a black woman to be performed by a major American orchestra—and her lost Symphony No. 2. [1] [2] [3]
In 1987, she made her recording debut with an album of piano works by Florence Price. [8] She was the first pianist to make a recording of Price's music. [9] A review in the academic journal The Black Perspective in Music highlighted the album's significance as a record of an important figure (Price) in American music history. [8]
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Name Original chapter Notability References Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, J.D., Ph.D. Gamma: 1919–1923. Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, one of the first Black women to receive a Phi Beta Kappa Key in the state of Pennsylvania, and the first ...
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