Talk:Florence Price

Chicago Women's Symphony
At this writing this seems not to have a page of its own. It is mentioned in Ethel Leginska and Thelma Terry. The latter indicates it did not pay a living wage, even to the "first chair" (concertmaster). Macmarl (talk) 03:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC) Macmarl (talk) 03:56, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Parents?
Do we have anything about her parents beside names? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.15.96.125 (talk) 20:14, 25 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I've read articles Rosalyn Story (Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra) wrote about her. In 2018 with The New Yorker (which I unfortunately can't access now), but I was able to access a November/December 2001 article titled "Rediscovering the Majesty of Composer Florence Price" in The Crisis, where she quotes Rae Linda Brown saying that both parents were educated, were not born in Little Rock, and came there as "professionals". James Smith (whose parents were Free Blacks) had lived in Delaware, Philadelphia, and Chicago before coming to Little Rock where he ran a dental practice. Florence Gulliver came from Indianapolis and worked as a piano teacher as well as managing a diner. The parents met in Little Rock. Some of that is already included. Just dropping the info here since someone asked. ---Sluzzelin  talk  20:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, but do you still have the said article link? If not, i'll find it on my own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.15.96.125 (talk) 15:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The Crisis: Google Books link, pp 54-55.
 * The New Yorker: "The Rediscovery of Florence Price – How an African-American composer’s works were saved from destruction."
 * And you will likely find something in the publications by Rae Linda Brown, sources in the article, as well. ---Sluzzelin talk  17:32, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.15.96.125 (talk) 21:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)


 * == Discography ==

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discographies,Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians, &Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Music. Peaceray (talk) 21:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

I am a bit dismayed by the organization of the discography & the difficulty in easily reading it. It seems that it is primarily in order by year, but there are some entries that a misplaced if this is the case & at least one entry is missing a year altogether. I am wondering:
 * Should this article have a discography at all? It seems unusual to have a discography for a composer. I will allow that this may be a special case for this article, as I suspect as Price's music was underrepresented in the early 20th-century American composer cannon.
 * Should this be in a sortable table format, something like WikiProject Discographies/style but more suited to classical recordings by including title, label, performing entity, year, label's record ID, OCLC #? Should the default sort order be by year?

Peaceray (talk) 21:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Well the whole article is in a bad state, not just the discography. I have seen many discographies for composers who are not firmly central in the canon, and have made a few myself. These include Guillaume de Machaut and Anthony Payne which I would humbly recommend as models; they also seem to be closer to the format that you mention in your second point. Aza24 (talk) 21:32, 8 January 2022 (UTC)


 * At about 20 albums, it doesn't seem like a good candidate for a separate discography (although maybe the "Works" section is). But the discography would benefit from a better layout, such as a table as in Peaceray's first link; the collapsed content in the second one isn't helpful IMO, and may cause WP:ACCESS problems. I haven't seen OCLCs used in discographies, but the rest looks good and a default order by release year is what is normally used. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:46, 10 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your input. I have done the initial step of organizing it into a table. Peaceray (talk) 06:44, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Manuscripts found out her house
Why didn't her family remove the manuscripts before the house went into disarray and was sold 2603:6080:C801:B061:E168:6E49:F31B:C2B3 (talk) 17:41, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Legacy and honors
Possible addition: Her Symphony No 1 in E minor was voted number 282 in the 2023 Classic FM Hall of Fame  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CDearlove (talk • contribs) 11:02, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Criticism or reception section?
Stumbled on this article and was surprised to find that there was no section dealing with Price's reception, unlike similar sections in the articles for Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich. From what I've read, it is an important and ongoing story, with some interesting dissenting criticisms amidst her mostly positive latter-day reception. I'd add such a section myself here and to articles for her symphonies, but I don't know her music well. Which is why I'm simply suggesting it for consideration to editors that focus on Price and her music. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 23:41, 11 September 2023 (UTC)