Mississippi Suite, Florence Price, The Women's Philharmonic
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@jslasher110 жыл бұрын
So beautiful and reflective. Such a talented composer. Her work should become better known through public performances.
@chamberacademyorchestra1384 жыл бұрын
I agree ;)
@dr.semperscott55044 жыл бұрын
Seems to be happening. Her album is the album of the week on the classical music station in the DC~VA~MD area this week. Recently learned that University of Maryland College Park will hold a Florence Price festival in the summer...increased offering of her music at schools and concert halls will raise awareness of her skill and offering.
@lawrencecody93162 жыл бұрын
I heard her "Ethiopa shadow in America", performed in Manchester 2 weeks ago probably a first for the Halle Orchestra..and certainly the first piece I have heard of Florence Price, live..I have been searching out her works, and have her 1st and 4th symphonies(the 3rd to be released on the 26 Nov..on NAXOS).she wrote 2 violin concertos and a single movement piano concerto, which I think received its premiere performance at this years BBC Proms...amnogst other orchestral and solo piano works, and maybe some quartets too..I always fine women composers have very much neglected in the past, but it seems they are slowly being recognised, what we need is committing them to disc,to be more widely available..and appreciated..
@johnllewlyndavies2222 жыл бұрын
I heard her on BBC Radio 3 today. She will be a familiar name in a short while.
@mgvegam9 жыл бұрын
Beautiful work! Her musical language denotes the American musical tradition beyond the classical European framework.
@iam188539 жыл бұрын
+Marco Vega I would diagree with you on this. She is obviously very deeply influenced by Dvorak, who was from Check Republic, but he himself was again influenced by African American music, Indian chants etc. I don't feel that she is crossing any borders from classical framework here.
@Akhibrass6 жыл бұрын
This piece draws heavily on spirituals which are an American genre. I agree with Marco, this is rooted firmly in the American tradition even if it borrows from a European toolkit.
@ShonWilsonOfficial4 жыл бұрын
100%!
@ShonWilsonOfficial4 жыл бұрын
@@iam18853 he didn't say devoid of European influence but rather beyond it, meaning extending past as if going to the line and then carrying on in a definitively American way.
@philgrimes27918 жыл бұрын
Just found out about her through a Sunday paper. I can hear Dvorak in there also (Ursule, below), and was just listening to her Sonata in E minor. I guess there's a lot of influences, but ultimately returned to a landscape and drama of America. Inspiring, stirring music.
@yarygork23345 жыл бұрын
YES DVORAK all the way!!
@steveegallo33845 жыл бұрын
@@yarygork2334 -- No, as much Virgil Thompson and Copeland as well...but these are all minor influences....She speaks her own mind! Brava from San Agustinillo!
@ConfigurationQueen4 жыл бұрын
I also heard the spiritual, Let My People Go, in there (leading up to around 20:00), and others I can't name offhand.
@njayaram37413 жыл бұрын
Amazing. I was telling a fellow Indian music prof last night that her Symphony No. 1 was partly reminiscent of the great Czech composer's 9th/"From The New World". He concurred.
@stevereade48583 жыл бұрын
Dvorak ... for sure, especially in her Symphony #1. Also, some Delius "Florida Suite". Dv's impact on American music at the time must have been enormous. Also, hear in Dass' work.
@kathleenturney4240 Жыл бұрын
I may be wrong, but Florence Price was first heard on WQXR with a 10 am. host, and now Florence is finally getting the recognition she deserves-70 years later😮
@andywellsglobaldomination8 ай бұрын
Finally! A Star Wars movie for people who don't like Star Wars!
@oliverheck1426Ай бұрын
Inspirierend. Ein Werk, das mich an Richard Strauss' Alpensymphonie erinnert. Ich staune wie kunstvoll Florence Price lautmalerisch verschiedene Motive verarbeitet darunter auch Gospel-Motive. Einfach genial. Dieses Werk sollte zum Repertoire der großen Klassik-Orchester gehören. Es ist einfach nur immens kreativ und positiv stimmend, erhebend. Inspiring. 😃A work that reminds me of Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony. I marvel at how skilfully Florence Price uses various onomatopoeic motifs, including gospel motifs. Simply brilliant. This work should be part of the repertoire of the great classical orchestras. It is simply immensely creative and positively uplifting.
@leonardkalom44763 жыл бұрын
The American composer Ferde Grofe famous for the Grand Caynon Suite also wrote a Mississippi Suite. Interesting to compare.
@shin-i-chikozima2 жыл бұрын
The comfort of this music is irreplaceable, and soothes my soul
@erlandschneck-holze69312 жыл бұрын
... nice work of a great (female) composer ... very inspired performers... wonderful pictures ... many thanks... an European lister (Germany)
@yarygork23345 жыл бұрын
She morphs it into a whole new piece at about 5:00 I see snow capped mountains when i close me eyes With tint spring flowers popping up. What a great piece for motion picture soundtrack!! .
@patriciamorehead13555 жыл бұрын
Beautiful and dramatic portrait of one of the world's great rivers.
@arthurgastreich54725 жыл бұрын
I feel how beautiful America is, and a touch of of black spiritual/ Grofe style God bless America
@derekdrew28156 жыл бұрын
Everyone inspires everyone - that's the beauty of good music
@alfredo34402 ай бұрын
Ein wunderbares Stück.
@laurarosalia83992 жыл бұрын
Gracias por compartir la música de esta excelente compositora.
@ginalua33366 жыл бұрын
I keep hearing parts of the melody from "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"... maybe I am hallucinating
@milesdavisahead6 жыл бұрын
No, she is quoting that spiritual. Also, Deep River and Go Down Moses.
@yarygork23345 жыл бұрын
i hear that too yep at about 9:30
@yarygork23345 жыл бұрын
nobody else hears our troubles?
@rheafoster73465 жыл бұрын
Many traditional Negro spirituals are quoted in this fine work
@Marlene55M4 жыл бұрын
No, you're not hallucinating, it's clearly in there, and I sang along :)
@pilouetmissiou6 жыл бұрын
very interesting music, rich of colours...thank for posting compositions of these american artist because discography is a disaster.. beautiful film..
@dienerism Жыл бұрын
Gorgeous. Peace and calm with danger all around.
@kimberlyknighton50716 жыл бұрын
A gifted composer. Thanks for posting.
@bobbuckingham7253 Жыл бұрын
Thanks to Las Vegas Classical (89.7) Station that while driving from Vegas to Pahrump I heard this incredible piece of Americana.
@amyscurriacomposer7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this! I was the copyist for this work back around the millenium, but I've never heard it live! What a gift!
@nathanielechols42207 жыл бұрын
Is the sheet music available anywhere?
@guyconsumer1926 жыл бұрын
how cool to be a copyist for such important work!! Congrats.
@TheKraaken16 жыл бұрын
You must be very proud. God knows, I would be!
@mccpesh5 жыл бұрын
Where is this music available?
@womensphil5 жыл бұрын
@@mccpesh Now it is available through G. Schirmer.
@jacquesbekaert4697 жыл бұрын
The tune quoted in the suite is Nobody knows the trouble I feel, a famous gospel. Very nice music, which deserve to be performed, like so many pieces by women composers.
@guyconsumer1926 жыл бұрын
I am seeing more female composers of the African diaspora and other origins appearing on performance programs and posted recordings.
@pilouetmissiou6 жыл бұрын
yes, it begins fortunately....we don't have so many creative persons on this earth.... a very large number of us is not able to create anything, or leave something to human culture; so any contribution is precious, i think like this.
@lancepeterson20992 жыл бұрын
In addition, I heard "Deep River" and "Go Down, Moses." There may have been others, but the inclusion of them is such a phenomenal way to honor the great contribution of spirituals to American music and culture.
@johng82983 жыл бұрын
I don't care if it's called " '43 Hudson Recall", it's still one of those pieces and artists that I have liked right away. Philosophically, I find it very hard to compare any composer to another.
@senojah3 жыл бұрын
I think she is an original and draws from her own unique background and American folk tradition. So beautiful and brings tears. A genius!
@johng82983 жыл бұрын
@@senojah Holly: Thanks for the reply. I enjoy many kinds of music, thanks to the incredible variety of same we are able to enjoy thru sources like KZbin. We have never had a time in our collective histories, where talents like hers are so available to everyone. Her attitude makes this white guy want to cheer!
@garyhill42652 жыл бұрын
Very nice piece. Reflective of the nature and moods of the Mississippi River.
@jackcallahan18483 жыл бұрын
heard this at the Jefferson city orchestra. sounds real nice
@riakang Жыл бұрын
I love the piece!🎵
@riakang Жыл бұрын
I like that it also has suspense in it.
@alexandrecosta27084 жыл бұрын
Revisiting this score. Reminds me Florida Suite of Frederick Darius, also a quite strong descriptive piece. It works very well as an introduction/visit card, ie to find and listen to more works. Thank you.
@notmyworld443 жыл бұрын
That's Frederick Delius. Florida Suite is my all-time favorite music.
@daniela.harris90526 жыл бұрын
Listen for "Tell ol' Pharaoh, let my people go" abt 20 minutes in.
@CulturalBackgroundsStudyBible3 жыл бұрын
Excited to study this one!
@TheAnnaFisher3 жыл бұрын
Divine inspiration!
@manfromlamuncha2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tone poem! Thanks!
@ignatiusbk8 жыл бұрын
Inspirational!
@SpecialtyHorseTraining6 жыл бұрын
Delightful!
@kmrerk2 жыл бұрын
It always annoys me that so many people fall all over themselves trying to find "influences" as if that qualifies as astute music criticism. Why not sit back and just listen for a change ?
@tholley821510 жыл бұрын
A lovely work!! I'll start looking for a score and parts!!
@kevinwithell84458 жыл бұрын
Did you have any luck?
@TheBlueeyedJew6 жыл бұрын
Kevin Withell I found three scores on IMSLP
@mccpesh5 жыл бұрын
Schirmer---expensive
@nvartandreassian80372 жыл бұрын
she is a musical peinter and has a very interesting musical dramaturgical sens
@HelloooThere3 жыл бұрын
thanks very much to Beethoven for this fine musika a la musicka!!!
@thomastimlin17247 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, = Dvorak status and where left off.
@nicolassantiagoortega54744 жыл бұрын
22:22 "Deep River"
@pandorabuttercup5 жыл бұрын
Was I mistaken or did I hear "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've seen" in it somewhere?
@alexwhitmire24444 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's around 9:40!
@nicolassantiagoortega54744 жыл бұрын
19:51 ¿Otra vez "Deep River"?
@ThePepperh5 жыл бұрын
What? All you people noticing Nobody Knows... at the 20 min mark, you all passed right over another little folk tune at 13:30 "Git Along Little Dogies"!! Listen to a very young Roy Rogers sing it on KZbin with the Sons of the Pioneers. You mis-identified the tune at 20 min anyway. That is Deep River, a little tune from Dvorjak's Largo in his New World Symphony that went Negro spiritual and choral concert piece over 100 years ago. It has long been a perfectly acceptable practice for composers to insert folk tunes in their homages to places.
@paulbrower32972 жыл бұрын
Composers who seek to recover melodic coherence after some often-unwise and un-musical digressions into the avant-garde are wise to look anew to the melodic attractiveness of folk traditions. Florence Price is no musical innovator, but is that a bad thing?
@ThePepperh2 жыл бұрын
@@paulbrower3297 Did you not read my last sentence? What made you think I disapproved of the use of folk music? READ my remarks again.
@paulbrower32972 жыл бұрын
@@ThePepperh I did. One need not be a musical innovator to be a fine composer. I do not recognize 'modernity' as an excuse for bad music-making. My criticism is of other composers whose innovations fall short of her level of composition. It is of course possible to be both innovative and excellent in music.Just think of Haydn and Chopin! I am delighted to have discovered her music which stands well on its own.
@ThePepperh2 жыл бұрын
@@paulbrower3297 Odd that this should come up right now. I am working on a novel where a composition teacher tells the class about the use of folk music. I quote: “One very useful source which has provided endless and rich inspiration is folk music. Anything from a fragment of seven or eight notes to the whole song. That one about a birch tree in Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies. Nineteen of them! Or Percy Grainger’s transcription of folk songs into symphonic expression. A composer can become fixated on a piece by someone else and write something new altogether using the same melody. Like Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis." In fact my working title is Siuil a Run, as that old Gaelic song figures in the development of the story. Are you a musician?
@devroz1238 жыл бұрын
Deeply inspired by Deep River.
@vickicarr486 жыл бұрын
And "Go Down Moses" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
@kimberlyknighton50716 жыл бұрын
She weaves many of our songs into this piece. Quite delightful.
@1330m2 жыл бұрын
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@PieterDeRaedt Жыл бұрын
Laat ons een bloem (Louis Neefs) start op 13:23 ;-)
@scottalbers25183 жыл бұрын
I want to root for her too. I dont see much here.
@josealexandre66327 жыл бұрын
Of course there is a strong European DNA ! Actually a Balkanized orchestral DNA. And so what ? What is the need of labelling "nationalisms" in symphonic music ? The XIX Century is over.... Very good piece, indeed altough with an etra use of metals in detriment of the strings (Smetana´s style ?).. But FLORIDA Suite and Grand Canyon Suite come to my mind and remain the strongest links of music inspired in American landscapes.
@Resplencemelodi3 жыл бұрын
Derivative of Dvořák.
@miss.phyllisreneefoster95478 жыл бұрын
I WOULD LOVE TOO NO MORE ABOUT FLORENCE B PRICE.
@SrSpoony77 жыл бұрын
KVIE has just done a special on her
@miss.phyllisreneefoster95477 жыл бұрын
o' really when and where at, what channel,
@SrSpoony77 жыл бұрын
KVIE it's the local channel here in California. I'm sure you could finite on their site
@KentishLad7 жыл бұрын
She was the subject of a recent documentary called "The Caged Bird". The DVD is available to buy here: thecagedbirddoc.weebly.com/
@herminioteixeira5921 Жыл бұрын
Estamos ouvindo, o que na música, as mulheres tem a dizer e, acreditem, elas dizem muito bem!... Vamos prestigia-las?... Vamos ouvi-las com mais frequência? Vamos abandonar esse machismo idiota de que apenas os homens são capazes?...
@stephenjablonsky19414 жыл бұрын
It is music like this that raises the question "What makes great music great?" This is nice, user-friendly music but it isn't great, not even close. There is a surprisingly small number of supremely great composers. Florence was a talented lady, but she doesn't qualify for the Hall of Fame. Maybe the problem is Mississippi...
@nostalgicmodernist13996 жыл бұрын
I love how just when it really seems an evocation of a sparkling American landscape, it's also quoting "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen."
@ChristianCareerJoy2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Florence Prince knew Louis Armstrong? Would that have been cool!
@Nogah1003 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering: Did Dvorak, in From the New World, take from Florence Price & Amy Beach, (was influenced by their music), or did they take from him? o.k. so here is: Dvorak wrote From the New World in 1893. Price wrote her Mississipi Suite in 1934. Amy Beach wrote her concerto in 1900. So yes, it seems HE was the influencer.
@nicolassantiagoortega54744 жыл бұрын
16:52 Espiritual negro "Deep River"
@colingodwin51044 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I want to hear more of her work.
@rheafoster73465 жыл бұрын
In some ways reminds me of Ferde Grofe, and Copeland's "Rodeo"
@WBryanH32 жыл бұрын
Yes, esp Copland.
@b42baritone6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if any of her music was inspired by the works of Aaron Copland
@joelane22986 жыл бұрын
Or vice versa ?
@pilouetmissiou6 жыл бұрын
more probably as she was born before him, it should be in the other sense, or in no sense. It is not obligatory.. the music of Copland has also a lot of influences...
@nicolassantiagoortega54744 жыл бұрын
19:14 ¿Un Juba dance?
@DrJedd3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@JamesVictorArt3 жыл бұрын
This slaps.
@jimmorgan56122 жыл бұрын
Buy she was only half black.What does that make her?
@gospelgriot8464 Жыл бұрын
Both of her parents were African-American. According to America's historical standards even 1/2 is "Black". Ancestry's DNA banks revealed many African Americans have several European male ancestors -- yet African Americans are all considered "Black". So annoying that being excellent causes people to diminish one's African ancestry...🙄