2026 started as a renaissance year for composer Florence Price. Then came controversy

2026 started as a renaissance year for composer Florence Price. Then came controversy

2026 looked to be a renaissance year for the composer Florence Price, a Black woman who made music in Chicago that is now being championed by the classical music world more than 70 years after her death.Minnesota Opera premiered a new work in February about her life, and Cambridge University Press just released a scholarly companion to her music. Concerts featuring her compositions are scheduled everywhere from Baltimore to New York City this ye…