Florence B. Price brings together a captivating spectrum of intense emotion, vibrant lightness, and playful charm in her works, which captivated me from the very first moment. Her songs in particular, characterized by great sensitivity and melodic ingenuity, made a lasting impression on me through their expressivity and complexity. But it's not just her music that leaves a lasting mark on me—I was also deeply moved by her life story. Florence B. Price was a single mother of two children after her divorce. Tragically, she had to endure the loss of one of her children at a young age—a fate that surely shaped her life profoundly. As an African American artist, she also had to assert herself in a time marked by deep racism, where women were rarely recognized in the world of classical music anyway. It is quite remarkable that her works have not yet been published in their entirety,… (Excerpts from the text in the booklet by Sascha El Mouissi)





