Tag: Rae Linda Brown
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Monday Link Round Up: June 22, 2020
News and music to start your week! TODAY we celebrate the publication of the long-awaited The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, by Dr. Rae Linda Brown, from the University of Illinois Press. (June 22 is listed by Amazon as the publication date, but hey, best to buy from…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 15, 2020
News and music to start the week. In the continued protests, and continued attacks by police on peaceful protesters, we are heartened by the reactions from musicians, and music scholars, in working towards a more just society. One of the standouts from the past week was an amazing story coming from Boston. Tufts University Professor…
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Death of Rae Linda Brown, pioneering Florence Price Scholar
With great sadness, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy mourns the passing of Dr. Rae Linda Brown, who died following a brief illness of sarcoma (a rare cancer of the connective tissue). A musicologist, professor, university administrator, and past President of the Society for American Music, we remember Dr. Brown especially for her groundbreaking scholarship on composer Florence Price.…