July 8, 2010

Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Florence Beatrice Smith Price became the first woman African-American composer to have a symphonic composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra when her Symphony in E Minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on June 15, 1933. A lifetime of teaching and composing resulted in a body of work that consists of more than 300 compositions ranging from small teaching pieces to concertos and large-scale symphonies.