Beyond The Years - Unpublished Songs of Florence Price

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Label
Azica Records
Release Date
July 26, 2024
Format
Grammy Award
67th GRAMMY® Award Nominee | Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Florence Price
    • PERFORMER
      Karen Slack, Michelle Cann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 26, 2024
    • UPC
      787867137024
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ACD-71370
    • LABEL
      Azica Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Desire

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    2. Bright Be the Place

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    3. Ships That Pass in the Night

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    4. Pittance

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    5. The Sum

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    6. Who Grope With Love for Hands

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    7. There Be None

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    8. Sacrament

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    9. What do I Care for Morning

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    10. The Dawn's Awake

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    11. Beyond the Years

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    12. Youth

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    13. Winter Idyl

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    14. Little Things

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    15. Your Leafy Voice

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    16. Spring

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    17. I Remember

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    18. Interim

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann

    19. Song Is So Old

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Karen Slack, Michelle Cann


With an ever-increasing awareness of the excellence that defined her career, Florence Price is finally receiving the recognition that she deserves. Price won the Wanamaker Prize in 1932, and she was the first Black woman to have a symphony premiered by a major American orchestra. Price was a gifted student, pianist, and organist. She graduated from high school in Little Rock, AR, at age 14. At age 16, she graduated from the New England Conservatory (as the only double major in her class) with degrees in organ performance and piano pedagogy. Price wrote music for everyone– across a range of styles and abilities, and for a variety of forces. Beyond the Years hones in on Florence Price the composer of songs. ONEcomposer has cataloged nearly 150 of her songs (to date), only about half of which have been published.

Beyond the Years highlights Price’s affinity for themes of faith, nature, love, and loss. Amongst Price’s treasures in the archives at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is her well worn copy of Vaccai: Practical Method of Italian Singing, a symbol of her fastidious commitment to writing idiomatically for the voice.

As performed by Karen Slack and Michelle Cann, these songs are receiving new life in the hands of two of the greatest artists of our generation.