Collection of art featuring original illustration of famed composer Florence Price, with quote, "I should like to be judged on merit alone. Florence price merch features handmade marble coasters, wood wall art, wood bookends and wall art prints. Florence Price art makes the perfect gift for any and all classical musicians and/or fans and lovers of classical music!ļ»æ
In her now infamous letter to the conductor of the Boston Symphony in 1943, Florence wrote, āTo begin with I have two handicaps ā those of sex and race. I am a woman; and I have some Negro blood in my veins. Knowing the worst, then, would you be good enough to hold in check the inclination to regard a womanās composition as long on emotionalism but short on virility and thought content; until you shall have examined some of my work? As to the handicap of race, may I relieve you by saying that I neither expect nor ask any concession on that score. I should like to be judged on merit alone.ā
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