Culture | Artistic posterity
Reinstating Florence Price’s place in Western music history
The work of the celebrated composer was ignored after her death. That oversight is being corrected
IN THE ARTS, “Lost and Found” stories often trace a cheerful path, as changing tastes and values rescue once-obscure figures from undeserved oblivion. The afterlife of Florence Price (sitting far right), an American composer, however, belongs to a less consoling genre: “Found and Lost and Found Again”.
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