Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price grew up in a middle-class household and attended the New England Conservatory of Music. After her death in 1953, possession of her scores that had not been ...
She’s won three Grammys, a Pulitzer, and has been composer-in-residence for the Philadelphia Orchestra. Next on her plate, composer Jennifer Higdon has written a celebratory fanfare for the Knoxville ...
It came as no real surprise that Maestro Aram Demirjian chose to open the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 season with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. After all, the work is perfect for celebratory ...