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The History of Florence Price and Being Ignored by Your Hometown

Composer Florence Price
Composer Florence Price

Douglas Shadle is an associate professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University and a leading authority on Arkansas native and composer Florence Price. Shadle says Price comes from a long line of American composers in the 1800s who were ignored by their local orchestras in favor of European composers like Brahms.