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A city-wide celebration of Arkansas-born Florence Price

Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University

Music City USA is celebrating Arkansas-born composer Florence Price with a series of concerts and talks. Doug Shaddell is an associate professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University, a researcher of Price’s life and music, and an organizer of this month’s commemoration. He said part of the celebration is an expansion of how we view the Little Rock-born composer.

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