Price String Quartet #2 in A Minor (1935), Beach String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89 (1921), Montgomery Source Code (2013)

Florence Price (1887–1953) was an American composer, pianist, organist, and teacher, and the first African American woman to have a work performed by a major orchestra. Educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, she composed more than 300 works, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and songs. Her Second String Quartet blends mid-20th-century modernism with African American musical traditions, featuring blues-inspired melodies, lyrical harmonies, Juba dance rhythms, and rich, expressive counterpoint.

Amy Beach (1867-1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her “Gaelic” Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era.

Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator whose works are performed worldwide by leading ensembles. Blending classical music with improvisation, poetry, and vernacular influences, her music has been praised as “wildly colorful and exploding with life.” Her notable works include Banner, Coincident Dances, and Five Freedom Songs. A longtime collaborator with The Sphinx Organization, she has served as composer-in-residence for Sphinx Virtuosi and is Professor of violin and composition at The New School. She currently serves as Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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The Wausau Club @ the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art

 309 McClellan St

Wausau, WI 54403

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