All the World's Fair's a stage

Kate Molleson focuses on Florence Price at a moment when her music was reaching its widest audience, from major orchestral performances to high profile cultural events in Chicago. Centring on the World’s Fair, the programme traces the concerts, pageants and collaborations through which Price’s work circulated during the 1930s, and the prominence she achieved amid the social and political realities of the period.

String Quartet in G major – II. Andante moderato
Catalyst Quartet

Symphony No. 1 in E minor – III. Juba Dance
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Fantasie Nègre No. 4 in B minor
Samantha Ege, piano

Piano Concerto in One Movement – Adagio cantabile
Jeneba Kanneh Mason, piano
Chineke! Orchestra
Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor

Sympathy
Louise Toppin, soprano
Jay Pierson, piano
John O’Brien, piano

My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord
Marian Anderson, contralto

The Oak
Apo Hsu, conductor
The Women’s Philharmonic

Produced by Ellie Ajao for BBC Audio Wales and West.