Mississippi River

Alternate Title

• The Mississippi River
• Mississippi River Suite¹

Composition Year

• 1934

Instrumentation

• 3+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn - 4.3.3.1 - timp.4perc - hp - strings

Length

• 28 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (1934): Box 6, Folder 2
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete: Box 3A, Folder 3
  • Score, damaged and incomplete: Box 6B, Folder 36
  • Parts, complete: Box 1D, Folders 36–49; Box 6A, Folders 2–3

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• The Mississippi River (Suite). New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2018.

Recordings

• Florence Price: The Oak, Mississippi River Suite, Symphony No. 3. Apo Hsu, conductor; The Women’s Philharmonic. Koch International Classics 3-7518-2 2111, 2007.
• 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.

Thematic Incipits

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.