Florence Price

Florence Beatrice Price (1887–1953) was a groundbreaking American composer whose choral output remains one of her most underappreciated legacies. Trained at the New England Conservatory, Price held church music positions throughout her life and wrote fluently for choir — producing sacred works, spiritual arrangements, and large choral-orchestral pieces spanning mixed, treble, and tenor-bass voicings. Her spiritual arrangements stand apart from contemporaries, retaining an intimacy clearly rooted in lived worship. When Marian Anderson performed Price's "My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord" at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, it brought her choral voice to a national stage — one she'd long deserved.

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