Florence Price and Silent Film
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:18 pm
Scott Yoo's new season of his great series, NOW HEAR THIS, on PBS, is devoted to American composers. The second show focuses on Florence Price. There is a lovely Easter egg for silent film fans. When Price migrated north to Chicago to escape racism, she worked as a silent film accompanist in Chicago. This lovely segment takes place at the Music Box Theater with organist, Dennis Scott, and includes a clip from Oscar Micheaux's 1925 BODY AND SOUL. If you have access to PBS, try to watch. The full episode is still streamable at https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/now-hear ... out/13478/.
David
David