Rediscovering The Music Of African American Composer Florence Price

'Florence Price was the first African American woman to have her symphony performed by a major orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed her work in 1933, and for any other composer that event would have launched a successful career, but Price’s talents were overlooked because of the color of her skin and her gender.  Host Frank Stasio talks to William Henry Curry about the music and life of Florence Price . Curry is the music director of the Durham Symphony Orchestra, which will perform work by Florence Price, Peggy Stuart Coolidge and more in their program celebrating the centennial of American women’s suffrage.' -- The State of Things on WUNC