Suite No. 1; First Sonata; In a Quiet Mood; The Hour Glass; Retrospection; Festal March; Variations on a Folksong; Adoration; A Pleasant Thought; Little Melody; Offertory; Allegretto Chicago renaissance woman, Florence B. Price (1887-1953) was the first African-American woman composer to be successful in classical music. A native of the South, she studied organ with Henry Dunham and composition with George Chadwick and others at the New England Conservatory. From about 1926 she made her home and career in the Chicago area. Calvert Johnson plays her organ works on the 3m Harrison & Harrison organ in Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia. |