Piano Concerto in One Movement

Alternate Titles

• Concerto in D Minor in One Movement
• Piano Concerto in D Minor
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor

Composition Year

• 1933–34 (Trevor Weston re-orchestration, 2010–11)

Instrumentation

• Original: 1.1.2.1-2.2.2.0-timp.3perc-strings
• Weston:

Length

• 18 min.

Manuscripts

• Cheryl A. Wall Collection of Margaret Bonds and Florence Price Scores, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago
  • Three-piano reduction
• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Two-piano reduction, complete: Box 8, Folder 8
  • Parts, miscellaneous: Box 8, Folder 8
  • Two-piano reduction, incomplete: Box 8, Folder 8; Box 19, Folder 13
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Two-piano reduction, damaged: Box 6B, Folders 21a–b
  • Parts, damaged: Box 6B, Folders 22–35
• MC2618: Florence Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Two-piano reduction: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Parts, complete: Box 3, Folders 2–13¹

Premiere Performance

• June 24, 1934; Orchestra Hall, Chicago; Chicago Musical College Orchestra; Florence B. Price, piano; unknown conductor.
• Weston: February 17, 2011; Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago; New Black Music Repertory Ensemble; Karen Walwyn, piano; Leslie B. Dunner, conductor.

Published Editions

• Original: Piano Concerto in One Movement. Edited by Clovis Lark and Nick Greer. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2020.
• Weston:

Recordings

• Florence B Price: Concerto in One Movement/Symphony in E Minor. Karen Walwyn, piano; Leslie B. Dunner, conductor; New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. Albany Records TROY 1295, 2011. (Weston)
• Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman. Michelle Cann, piano; Michael Repper, conductor; New York Youth Symphony. Avie Records AC2503, 2022. (Original)
• Florence Price: Concerto in One Movement. Karen Walwyn, piano; Geoffrey Robson, conductor; Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. DistroKid 3724517 Records DK, 2022. (Original, digital only)
• Black Renaissance Woman. Samantha Ege (solo) and John Paul Ekin (orch.), pianos; Lorelt LNT145, 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

• In Progress

Bibliography

1. Brown, Rae Linda. “Florence B. Price and Margaret Bonds: The Chicago Years.” Black Music Research Journal 12 (Fall 1990): 11–14.
2. 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.
3. Brown, Rae Linda. “The Woman’s Symphony Orchestra of Chicago and Florence B. Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement.” American Music 11 (1993): 185–205.
4. Flandreau, Suzanne. “Black Music in the Academy: The Center for Black Music Research.” Notes Second Series 55 (1998): 26–36.
5. Hill, Alexandra Kori. “Make the Familiar New: New Negro Modernism in the Concertos of Florence B. Price.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2022.
6. Morton, Vanessa. “Florence Price Reborn.” Columbia Chronicle, March 13, 2011.

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