Price: Songs of the Oak Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen & John Jeter

• Florence Price (1887 - 1953): Concert Overture No. 1 "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass":
• 1 Price: Concert Overture No. 1 "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass" 11:40
• Concert Overture No. 2 (Ending A):
• 2 Price: Concert Overture No. 2 (Ending A) 13:34
• The Oak:
• 3 Price: The Oak 16:22
• The Oak (Ending B):
• 4 Price: The Oak (Ending B) 10:42
• Colonial Dance (Version for Orchestra):
• 5 Price: Colonial Dance (Version for Orchestra) 04:14
• Suite of Dances:
• 6 Price: Suite of Dances: I. Allegretto 01:37
• 7 Price: Suite of Dances: II. Allegretto 00:55
• 8 Price: Suite of Dances: III. Allegro molto 01:20
• Total Runtime 01:00:24

Info for Price: Songs of the Oak

The rediscovery of Florence Price's music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price's immense artistic imagination on full display. The two Concert Overtures explore her engagement with spirituals, both episodically and coloristically, in music that embraces the somber, the poignant and the ebullient. Songs of the Oak is a tour de force of Hollywood-influenced storytelling while The Oak offers amore anxious, ultimately tragic portrait. Price's best-known work is the Suite of Dances-originally for piano it is heard here in the composer's full, sumptuous orchestration.

Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
John Jeter, Dirigent

John Jeter
has been music director and conductor of the Fort Smith Symphony since 1997. He received the 2012 Governor’s Award for “Individual Artist of the State of Arkansas”, the 2002 Helen M. Thompson Award presented by the League of American Orchestras, and the Mayor’s Achievement Award for services to the City of Fort Smith.

Jeter has guest conducted numerous orchestras in the US, including the Springfield Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Arkansas Symphony and Illinois Chamber Symphony.

His orchestral education programmes have reached up to 10,000 students annually, and he is involved alongside Fort Smith Symphony with music and health research and education in conjunction with the Arkansas College of Health Education Health Research Institute Health & Wellness Center in Fort Smith.

Aside from conducting and teaching, Jeter has co-hosted numerous radio programmes and is involved in several radio and television projects concerning classical music.

He received his formal education at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music and Butler University’s Jordan College of Fine Arts.

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