Tag: new jersey symphony

  • Florence Price: A New Chapter For An Undervalued Composer

    Florence Price: A New Chapter For An Undervalued Composer

    Advocates of American classical music have often complained that there is a whole generation of mid-20th century symphonic composers whose work has been unjustly neglected. It includes figures like Roy Harris, Charles Ives, Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and William Schuman, to name a few who were active from roughly 1930 to 1960 and who now rarely…