Florence Price

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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Mozart and Price, plus a world premiere by French-Argentine composer Esteban Benzecry. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, and welcomes his frequent collaborator, Hélène Grimaud, as piano soloist.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert features Italian pianist Beatrice Rana with music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to perform Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, on a program with Florence Price's Third Symphony and Ravel's orchestral suite 'Le Tombeau de Couperin.'

Michelle Cann's first solo piano album, 'Revival,' celebrates the music of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. It's a noble gesture executed with absolute conviction, as John T.K. Scherch notes in his Album of the Week review.

Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in waltzes by Ravel and Strauss, and rising-star violinist Randall Goosby performs two concertos by composer Florence Price.

Join us on Sunday, March 24 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you works by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Samuel Barber and Matthew Aucoin.

Florence Price's first and third symphonies are celebrated in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s recent GRAMMY-winning album, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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