- The date of this work is unknown. Price’s second concert overture is dated 1943, so this one was presumably written prior to that date.1
- Both of Price’s two concert overtures are based on spirituals.2 This one is based on the spiritual “Sinner, Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass.”3
- Price also explored this spiritual in her Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E minor. Price had written that work in 1929 for her talented piano student, Margaret Bonds.4
Sources
- “Concert Overture No. 2,” Schott Music, accessed July 1, 2021, https://en.schott-music.com/shop/concert-overture-no-2-no375700.html.
- Rae Linda Brown, “Price [née Smith], Florence Bea(trice),” Grove Music Online (March 30, 2020), accessed July 1, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-90000367402.
- Florence Price, Concert Overture No. 1 (New York: G. Schirmer, 2018), 1.
- Samantha Ege, “Recording the Piano Music of Florence Price,” Gramophone (March 8, 2021), accessed July 1, 2021, https://www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/recording-the-piano-music-of-florence-price.
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