Interim

Alternate Title

Composition Year

Instrumentation

Piano and high voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

Virginia Houston
“The Poet’s Corner.” The Crisis. 37, no. 5 (May 1930): 163.

Manuscripts

MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
- Box 12, Folder 31
MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
- Score, complete (undated): Box 1C, Folder 32¹

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

Recordings

Nearly Lost: Art Songs by Florence Price. Christine Jobson, soprano; Gregory Thompson, piano; feat. Jane Brendle, violin, and Sarah Markle, cello. Christine Jobson, 2019.

Thematic Incipits

In progress

Bibliography

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.

Notes

This score lists the composer as “INKSPOT” and the lyricist as “A Colored Poet.” It includes other markings (“Class I” and “103” [in blue pencil]) that suggest it was entered into a composition contest. ↩