Ethiopia's Shadow in America

Alternate Title

• The Shadow of Ethiopia in America

Composition Year

• 1929¹

Instrumentation

• 2+pic.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.4perc - cel - strings

Length

• 14 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (1929): Box 10, Folder 5
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete: Box 1C, Folder 31²

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• Ethiopia’s Shadow in America. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 20??.

Recordings

• Florence Beatrice Price: Symphony No. 3 - The Mississippi River - Ethiopia’s Shadow in America. John Jeter, conductor; ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.559897, 2021.
• Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman. Michael Repper, conductor; New York Youth Symphony. Avie Records AC2503, 2022.
• F.B. Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement / Symphony No. 1. Roderick Cox and Leslie Suganandarajah, cond.; Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano; Chineke! Orchestra. Decca Classics, 2023.

Thematic Incipits

• Movement I
• Movement II
• Movement III

Bibliography

1. Brown, Rae Linda. The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
2. McGinty, Doris Evans. A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians. Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago, 2004.

Entry History

• Submitted May 31, 2024

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