Lethe

Alternate Title

Composition Year

• 1940

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966)
• “Lethe.” Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life 4, no. 43 (July 1926): 229.

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 12, Folder 32
  • Box 14, Folder 10

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

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.