Concert Overture No. 2

Composer: PRICE, Florence
  • Written in 1943 (four years after Concert Overture No. 1), Concert Overture No. 2, like Price’s first concert overture, is based on spirituals:
    • Go Down, Moses
    • Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
    • Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
  • The sequence of these three spirituals takes the piece from somber and stirring to exuberant.1

Sources

  1. Douglas W. Shadle, Notes in accompanying booklet, Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak performed by the Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Jeter, Naxos 8.559920, 2022, compact disc.

Cut IDs

24978