University Chamber Orchestra

The Salem State University Chamber Orchestra presents its final concert of the academic year featuring works by Scott Joplin,  William Grant Still and Florence Price.

Florence Price was a composer, pianist, organist and piano teacher. Born in Arkansas, Price came to Boston to study music at the New England Conservatory. Among her nearly 300 works, her orchestral and vocal (including choral) repertoire seem to have been her main focus. Her “Symphony, No. 1” was premiered by the Chicago Symphony, making her the first Black woman to have an orchestral work played by a major orchestra. This concert will feature “Symphony, No. 4 in D minor”, composed in 1945. This work was never performed during Price’s lifetime and was presumed lost until it was discovered in stash of documents in her summer home in 2009. The symphony was finally premiered in 2018 and has rapidly gained a place as part of the American symphonic literature.

Admission to this concert is free.

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