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A Musical Portrait: Price and Bonds

Walt Disney Concert Hall

As two Black women composers working in the 1930s, unrecognized and unsupported by their field and the country in which they lived, Florence Price and Margaret Bonds forged a lasting relationship as mentor and student, as musical collaborators, as champions of one another’s art, and as friends. Both Bonds and Price would set numerous “firsts” as milestones in their careers, writing with distinct musical vocabularies that blended their Western classical training with African American styles and forms, and championing messages of Black acceptance and pride in the United States. From art songs to solo showpieces and symphonic excerpts, Julia Bullock curates an evening showcasing the enduring musical voices of Price and Bonds.

The Rock My Soul Festival is generously supported in part by Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa.

Classical

Program

PRICE

Retrospection

PRICE

Symphony No. 1 in E minor: 4. Finale. Presto

PRICE (arr. Michael-Thomas FOUMAI)

Song to the Dark Virgin

PRICE

The Oak

PRICE (arr. Jannina NORPOTH)

Four Encore Songs

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I Am Bound for the Kingdom

PRICE (arr. Michael-Thomas FOUMAI)

A Piece for Solo Piano and Orchestra, after Florence Price’s Fantasie nègre No. 1 (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Intermission

BONDS

"Who is That Man?" from Simon Bore the Cross

PRICE

Organ Suite No. 1

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