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Florence Price and Leo Sowerby String Quartets

Florence Price and Leo Sowerby String Quartets

Update: 2024-03-08
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Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of works for string quartet by Florence Price and Leo Sowerby, who were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s. Most of Florence Price’s compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her String Quartet in A minor was not performed in her lifetime. Her Five Folksongs in Counterpoint entwine and enrich the famous melodies with African American vernacular idioms and colourful harmony, while Sowerby’s String Quartet in G minor reveals music undeserving of its decades of obscurity in the Avalon Quartet's world premiere recording of the work.

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Florence Price and Leo Sowerby String Quartets

Florence Price and Leo Sowerby String Quartets

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