Who Was Florence Price? Why Is The Evanston Symphony Orchestra Featuring Her Symphony No. 3 Oct. 30?
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Evanston Symphony Orchestra | Evanston Illinois’ Community Orchestra playing classical music concerts at Pick Staiger Hall | 2014-2015 Season
2026–2027 Season: The Love of Music
Musical Insights
Free Pre-Concert Preview Series!
October 16, Friday, at 1:30 pm
Enhance your concert experience with a sneak preview — Composers come alive and their passions take center stage when ESO Maestro Lawrence Eckerling takes you on an insider’s tour of the history and highlights behind the music.
Irina Muresanu and Larry Eckerling will be playing the first movement from Beethoven's Spring Sonata No. 5 at Musical Insights.
Friday, October 16 at 1:30 pm,
Merion’s Crystal Ballroom at
529 Davis St, Evanston.
FREE and open to the public.
Please RSVP to 847-570-7815.
Light refreshments will be served and casual tours of apartments will be available after the program.
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Florence Price, Groundbreaker
Florence (Smith) Price (1887 – 1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, the daughter of a dentist father and music teacher mother. Florence’s mother was instrumental in her early musical training. A music prodigy, Florence attended the New England Conservatory, double-majoring in organ and piano teaching.
