Uos Music Presents | Samantha Ege

A blend of performance and storytelling.

This programme begins with Florence Price and the second movement of her Sonata in E minor. Next is Gabriela Ortiz’s Preludio y Estudio no. 3. The piece is a colourful and rhythmic homage to the women who fought in the Mexican Revolution. From Mexico to the UK, Doreen Carwithen’s Molto Adagio from her Sonatina and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Andante from his Three-Fours Valse Suite bring moments of plaintive reflection. This year also marks 150 years since Coleridge-Taylor’s birth, and his musical influence is felt in the African American folk melodies and lush Romanticism of the Florence Price work that opens this programme. The concert ends with a return to Price’s narrative. Commissioned by Samantha Ege to celebrate the women in her latest book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Scene, Cuban fusionista Camila Cortina Bello’s Bravura tells the story of Price’s musical sisterhood on Chicago’s South Side.