On Juneteenth, A Celebration Of Black Classical Composers
The stereotype of a classical composer is an old, long-dead, white man. But Black musicians have been integrating the classical genre for decades.
In honor of Juneteenth, the day that commemorates Emancipation, our sister station 91Classical has been celebrating Black classical composers and their contributions to the field.
One composer getting a long-overdue boost these days is Florence Price. In 1933, she became the first African-American woman to have her music played by a major orchestra.
But that performance by the Chicago Symphony was a one-off. For the most part, she couldn’t even get conductors to look at her scores, so most of her orchestral music went unperformed and unpublished in her lifetime. But a few years ago, the people who bought a house where she used to live found a big stash of manuscripts, and now her music is finally getting performed and recorded the way it always should have been.
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