The Retort

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

Instrumentation

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
• Majors and Minors: Poems. Toledo, OH: Hadley & Hadley, 1895.
  • OCLC: 702705636

Manuscripts

• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 5B, Folder 34
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 61, Folder 1424¹

Premiere Performance

• Illinois Host House, July 1933

Published Editions

Recordings

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.

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