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Florence Price: Forgotten No More, Kathryn E. Amdahl

2023 Symposium

Florence Price was a composer and musician who lived from 1887 to 1953. She composed music in every genre except for opera. The music of Florence Price traveled practically everywhere; from the radio to the concert halls to the church. Throughout her life, she became well-known as the first African American female composer who was featured by a major symphony. Florence Price was tenacious, brave, and courageous during her era which contributed to the level of acceptance that society now holds for African American composers. Despite the challenges she faced during her lifetime, she never gave up or collapsed due …

Prosody In Friedrich Von Flotow's Setting Of The Last Rose Of Summer, Hope Dornfeld

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Performing Arts- Music

Theological Perspectives Of The Mass In B Minor, Bwv 232, Maria Jimena Picado Sandi

Graduate Student Research Symposium

In 1733, the great German Lutheran composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented the beginnings of what would become his only Catholic work, the Mass in B minor, to the newly elected King of Poland, August III. This first draft was a compilation of extracts from five different Lutheran Masses that he had already composed, including a Kyrie and a Gloria.

Over the years, musicologists have put forth various theories as to why such a devoted Lutheran such as Bach wrote a Catholic mass (e.g. Wolff 2001). My research clarifies how specific sections of the Mass express both Catholic and …

Virtual Master Class With Kim Kashkashian, Kim Kashkashian, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Jessi Kaufman, Miayicong Zhang, Natalie Brennecke, Margot Elder, Daniel Guevara

Karen Tuttle Viola Workshop

No abstract provided.

Faculty Concert, Sheila Browne, Stephen Wyrczynski, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Karen Tuttle Viola Workshop

No abstract provided.