THE POINT DISAPPEARS INTO THE MISTS, BUT THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC’S FORGERY OF FLORENCE PRICE’S RAINBOW WALTZ REMAINS In their widely viewed annual New Year’s concert, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra played a piece that they said was Florence Price’s Rainbow Waltz even though it wasn’t. Those who know Price’s music and respect her, both as a composer and as a human being, immediately cried foul, led by intrepid oboist, composer, and blogger Katherine

A COMING MARGARET BONDS PREMIERE WORKS TO RIGHT AN OLD NEST OF WRONGS Part 4 of 4: An Illustrated Program Note for Margaret Bonds’s Bitter Laurel [This is the fourth and final installment in a series of posts about the premiere of Margaret Bonds's late musical drama Bitter Laurel . Part I, focusing on the biographical context for the work's creation, is available here . Part II, focusing on Elizabeth Keckley and her connections to Queens University of Charlotte, is here . And