Link Up
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- How to Use the Curriculum
- Fundamentals
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The Orchestra Sings
- Overview
- Concert Repertoire
- Repertoire Exploration
- About the Composers
- Sheet Music Index
- Supporting Resources
- Audio Index
- Video Index
- Student Activities Index
- Standards and Acknowledgements
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The Orchestra Rocks
- Overview
- Concert Repertoire
- Repertoire Exploration
- About the Composers
- Sheet Music Index
- Supporting Resources
- Audio Index
- Video Index
- Student Activities Index
- Standards and Acknowledgements
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The Orchestra Moves
- Overview
- Concert Repertoire
- Repertoire Exploration
- About the Composers
- Sheet Music Index
- Supporting Resources
- Audio Index
- Video Index
- Student Activities Index
- Standards and Acknowledgements
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The Orchestra Swings
- Overview
- Concert Repertoire
- Repertoire Exploration
- About the Composers
- Sheet Music Index
- Supporting Resources
- Audio Index
- Video Index
- Student Activities Index
- Standards and Acknowledgements
- Instrument Families
- Concert Experience
- Assessments Index
- Link Up New York City
“Juba” from Symphony No. 1
Student Participation: Listening
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Repertoire Exploration
Learn fundamental concepts of music and engage in creative activities through a deeper exploration of the ideas and themes of the Link Up repertoire.
Rhythms That Swing
Communicating Through Swing
Forms that Swing
Composer Bio
Florence Price
Florence Price (1887–1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. A gifted musician who began studying piano at age four, Price was exposed to the music of Bach and Mendelssohn as a child, and her parents frequently hosted leading figures of the Black intelligentsia, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass. By age 14, Price had enrolled at New England Conservatory, where she earned degrees in both piano and organ performance. Price relocated to Chicago in 1926 and started to gain national and international recognition for her music. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s premiere of her Symphony in E Minor was the first performance by a major US orchestra of a symphony composed by a Black woman. Price composed more than 300 works, and her musical language synthesizes European traditions with elements of Black spirituals and other folk traditions.