Florence Beatrice Price was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Price was born to Florence Gulliver and James H. Smith on April 9, 1887, in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was one of three children born into a mixed-race […]
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