There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
John Michael Cooper interprets Florence Price’s songs, “To My Little Son” and “Brown Arms (To Mother),” as responses to the painful losses of her son and her mother.
A playlist of 11 songs (and 12 stellar performances) of songs Florence Price wrote to poems by Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and three Black women poets.
This audio blog post discusses Julia Johnson Davis’s poem “To My Little Son” and Florence Price’s deeply personal musical setting of it.
