Florence Price has an amazing story too, she was pretty successful while she was alive (for a black woman composing classical music) in the first half of the 20th Century (she's the first black woman to have her music played by a major American Orchestra) and most of her music was lost to time after she died in the 50s until someone found boxes and boxes of her sheet music in an attic in 2009. Her music is American in the same way Copland's music is American, and just gorgeous. I love her piano music so much. There is currently an explosion of her music being recorded, and expect a lot more of it in the next few years. Here's a Florence Price playlist. Thanks for reading by the way, I'll tell anyone about these people that wants to listen!
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