THE CAGED BIRD Florence Price - a podcast by Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

In an abandoned house in St. Anne, Illinois, an astonishing treasure trove of handwritten sheet music was discovered in 2009. That cache was the life’s work of composer Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have her work performed by major orchestras. But Price’s story is so much bigger – and so much wilder! – than even that headline-grabbing discovery could show.  Her astonishing contributions to classical music are finally getting the attention – and …

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