Fantasia 2021: 7 Pieces to Get You Started with Classical Music
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Florence Price's Danson No. 1
The jaunty and cheerful vibe of the music belies its origins, but it is again a brilliant use of folk idioms in the classical context. And in the final movement, Price writes a classized version of a juba, a dance that first appeared on southern plantations during the time of slavery. Let's go to Mexico now in a spectacularly fun piece that turns some perceptions of music upside down with Arturo Marquez's Danson No. 1.
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