A 1934 black and white photograph of four people sitting on a couch at a party in Honor of Maude R. George. Photo is from the Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers, University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections, Fayetteville. The text for the book cover reads: South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene, by Samantha Ege.

Classical music, like so many art forms, requires two conditions: a steady flow of capital and preserving belief in the existence of singular, anachronistic genius. As scholar-pianist Samantha Ege makes clear in South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene, Florence Price is no exception. Price is now widely recognized as the […]

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