Florence Price Violin Concerto &Choral Spectacular, featuring Er-Gene Kahng

1009 Varsity Drive,Tupelo MS 38801

30 April, 2022

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Florence Price Violin Concerto & Choral Spectacular, Featuring Er-Gene Kahng, Violin Itawamba Community College Chorus — Kyle Davis, Director; Northeast Mississippi Community College Chorus — Claire Leeke, Director; NMSO Children’s Chorus — Monica Roden Spencer, Director Former NMSO Concertmaster Er-Gene Kahng returns to perform the recently discovered Violin Concerto No. 2 of Arkansas composer Florence Beatrice Price. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. The NMSO also welcomes the collaboration of the choruses from Itawamba and Northeast Mississippi Community Colleges, and the NMSO Children’s Chorus, all of whom have contributed so richly and significantly to the success of the NMSO and our regional community. The Tupelo Symphony was founded in 1971 by attorney Wade Lagrone who believed it was possible for a city as small as Tupelo to support an all-professional symphony orchestra. The Tupelo Symphony has drawn musicians from Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and beyond and become an important regional orchestra in Mississippi. As a reflection of its increasing regional presence, in May 2013, the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra was renamed the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra.