Florence Price: Fantasie nègre No. 2 in G minor

Florence Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies, four concertos, as well as choral works, art songs, and music for chamber and solo instruments. In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers was found in an abandoned house on the outskirts of St. Anne, Illinois, which Price had used as a summer home. Her Fantasie nègre No. 2 (1932) was only published in 2020. As the hybrid title suggests, Price had created a genre that integrated African-American spirituals and plantation songs with the virtuosic European piano fantasy. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas into a mixed-race family, her father was the only African-American dentist in the city, and her mother was a music teacher who guided her early musical training. She moved to Chicago to escape the increasingly racist South. She became part of the Chicago Black Renaissance, and her compositional career flourished in the industrial city. Programme notes © 2022 by Ning Hui See. Please do not reproduce without the author's permission. #FlorencePrice #ChicagoBlackRenaissance #womeninmusic Stay up to date with: https://www.ninghuisee.com If you wish to support me: https://www.paypal.me/ninghuisee Ning Hui on social media:   / pianistninghuisee     / ninghui_piano