Three Negro Dances
Alternate Title
- See also “Three Little Negro Dances” (piano)
- See also “Suite of Negro Dances” (orchestra)
Composition Year
- 1939 (orig. ca. 1933)
Copyright Information
- March 27, 1939, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 76068
Instrumentation
Length
- 3-4 min.
Manuscripts
- N/A
Premiere Performance
- ca. July/August 1939 in performances by Glenn Bainum’s band (Chicago) and the U.S. Marine Band (Washington, DC).1
Published Editions
- Leidzén, Erik. W.G., arr. Three Negro Dances. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1939.
Recordings
- See Sewell, “From Interlochen’s Archives,” for a live recording of a concert given by the National Music Camp High School Band at Interlochen (Clarence Sawhill, conductor) on July 12, 1942.
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.
- Sewell, Amanda. “From Interlochen’s Archives: Florence Price’s Music at Interlochen.” Interlochen (MI) Public Radio, July 27, 2022.
Notes
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The Chicago Sunday Times (July 16, 1939) reported that Bainum’s band that the piece would appear on “tomorrow night’s concert,” presumably July 17; the Pittsburgh Courier (August 12, 1939) reported that the U.S. Marine Band performed this arrangement “last Saturday,” presumably August 5. ↩