Thursday, March 11, 2010

Claire Detels: Florence Price's 'Sonata in E Minor' is '25 minutes long and it's a real bravura work'


[Florence B. Price]

On March 9, 2010 AfriClassical posted: “Pianist Claire Detels Performs Florence B. Price's 'Sonata in E Minor,' Fayetteville, Ark. March 23.” Claire Detels is Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas. We have since requested more information about the program. Prof. Detels replies to the inquiry from AfriClassical: “Hi Bill, Below are some program details. I'm just doing the Price Sonata this time, but it's 25 minutes long and it's a real bravura work, probably her biggest outside of the Symphony in E minor. Thanks for helping to spread the word!”

Clara Wieck-Schumann and Arkansas’s Own Florence Price
With Musicologist-Pianist Claire Detels
Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 6 PM
Walker Community Room, Fayetteville Public Library
Program
Romanze in A minor...Clara Wieck-Schumann (1819-96)
Witches’ Dance, Op. 5, no.1
Soirees Musicales, Op. 6
Notturno
Mazurka
Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, Op. 16
Sonata in G Minor, mvt. 2: Adagio
Piece Fugitive in D Major, Op. 15
Sonata in E Minor...Florence Price (1888-1953)
Andante-Allegro
Andante
Scherzo-Allegro
[Florence B. Price is profiled at AfriClassical.com, where a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma is featured.]

Comment by email:
I'm available to do these programs for non-profit venues by means of matching grants from the Arkansas Artists on Tour, and the Mid-America Arts Alliance, so if you know of interested parties who can't get to Fayetteville, I could come to them. All best, Claire

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