Next week programming will bring 3 new CDs and 1 new MP3 composition.
The CDs are Grosse Fuge with Pianist Stephan Moller and 16 Lieder by Franz Schuber with Dietrich Fisher- Dieskau

 Carly Morenus makes her second appearance with us with Music from her Piano Sampler









The mp3 composition comes from Linda Holzer, pianist a Concert Recording from the Society for American Music national conference of  Florence Price (1887-1953): Sonata in E Minor

A versatile performer, pianist Linda Holzer presents expressive works from the classical  masters to dazzling contemporary works by North & South American, and Asian composers.  
A professor of music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, an active soloist and chamber musician, she has been heard in concert in 25 states, including at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the New Orleans  Center for Creative Arts, and New York Public Radio Station WNYC-­-FM, as well as abroad at Qingdao University in mainland China, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Palffy Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. An advocate for contemporary music, she has participated in numerous premieres, and her concert recordings have been broadcast internationally.  Dr. Holzer, a native of Chicago, holds degrees in piano performance from Northwestern University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Florida State University. She served as chair of the Committee on the Pedagogy Student and Young Professional for the 2007 and 2009 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago, and is a member of the Network of Music Career Development Officers (NETMCDO).  She is a founding member of the duo Mariposa with violinist Sandra McDonald, assistant concert master of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She also enjoys writing, and is the author of articles published in Piano & Keyboard, Clavier, American Music Teacher, and Piano Pedagogy Forum.  Her website is http://www.ualr.edu/lrholzer/bio.shtml

Florence Price (1887-­-1953), a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, was a pioneer in the field of American classical music in the early twentieth century. She became the first black woman composer to earn an international reputation for her work, and was among the first American composers to integrate her Negro heritage with Western art music.  
Price's father, Dr. James H. Smith, was a dentist, and her mother, Florence Gulliver, was a school teacher with some musical training who was her daughter’s first piano teacher.
Young Florence Smith was an excellent student, and graduated from Capitol High School in Little Rock in 1903 as the valedictorian of her class.  She traveled to Boston and enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music, earning a bachelor’s degree in  1906.  This institution was among the few professional music schools in the country that accepted students regardless of race.  She taught on the music faculties of historically black colleges in Georgia and Arkansas for several years.  
In 1912 Florence Smith married attorney Thomas J. Price and the couple settled in Little Rock, where Thomas Price was partner in a law firm. His law firm was involved in several contentious civil rights cases, including the Elaine Race Riot Case in 1919.
The Prices decided to  move north to Chicago in 1926.  Having lived in Boston during her student days at the New England Conservatory, Florence Price quickly found ways to take advantage of Chicago's cultural riches and the thriving artistic contingent of the urban black community.  Among the pieces she composed in Chicago was the
formidable Piano Sonata in E Minor (1932).  Shortly after that, she won the Wanamaker Award for her 1st symphony, which was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933 as part of the World’s
Fair, known as  “A Century of Progress.”  The performance was attended by First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.

I guess we will have to see if there is a recording of her 1st Symphony.
Enjoy the new compositions beginning on the 25th of October.
That is it for today
Chuck