Samantha Ege - Hartley Residency - Seminar Seminar

Programme:

Day 1: Monday 14 March 2022

1pm, Turner Sims
UoS Music Presents… Samantha Ege's 'Black Renaissance Woman'

4pm – 5.30pm, Building 6, Room 1077
Samantha Ege Presentation: "The End of This Story Is Now Really the Beginning": New Directions in Florence Price Scholarship.
Session chaired by Jeanice Brooks.

In 2009, numerous manuscripts by Florence Price (1887-1953) were discovered in the composer’s former summer home in Illinois. Works that were thought to be lost were found and reunited with the rest of the Price materials at the University of Arkansas. As the missing pieces of the puzzle came together, an even more detailed portrait of this pioneering African American composer began to emerge. The late Price scholar Rae Linda Brown remarked, 'the end of this story is now really the beginning. It is, however, for the next generation of music scholars to delve through the music, to study it, to perform, to record it, and to tell the rest of the story'. In this talk, Dr Samantha Ege explores Brown's words in relation to her own research and the possibilities for new and exciting directions in Price scholarship.

 

Day 2: Tuesday 15 March 2022

10.00-11.30am, Building 6, Room 1083
Introductory Seminar with Postgraduate Students focused on Samantha Ege’s article ‘Nora Douglas Holt’s Teachings of a Black Classical Canon’ (Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory, 2022).

12pm – 1.30pm, Building 6 Room 1077
Laurie Stras Presentation: ‘Sixteenth-century women composers, beyond borders’.
Session chaired by Nyle Bevan-Clarke.

2.30pm – 4pm, Building 2 Room 5053
Closing roundtable focused on ‘Practice-Research’ featuring Samantha Ege, Laurie Stras and Mary-Jannet Leith.
Session chaired by Amy Williamson.

For more information regarding these events, please email Ben Oliver at B.Oliver@soton.ac.uk. 

 

Speaker information

Samantha Ege is the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Her first book is called South Side Impresarios: Race Women in the Realm of Music (University of Illinois Press). She has been contracted as co-author of a Florence Price biography for the Master Musicians Series (Oxford University Press) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price.

In 2021, she received the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award for her recording project on Black Renaissance women composers. In 2019, she received the Society for American Music's Eileen Southern Fellowship and Newberry Library Short-Term Residential Fellowship for her work on women's contributions to concert life in interwar Chicago.

Ege released her debut album in May 2018, called Four Women: Music for solo piano by Florence Price, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Ethel Bilsland and Margaret Bonds. She released her critically acclaimed second album in March 2021, called Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price. Her third album is called Black Renaissance Woman: Piano Music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, and Helen Hagan and will be released in February 2022.