Yesterday, Tom Service  published an excellent report  in the British daily The Guardian about the Vienna Philharmonic’s performance of a forged Rainbow Waltz by Florence Price in their acclaimed New Year’s concert for 2026. Folks who know Ms. Price’s music immediately raised questions about the obvious forgery (but received no replies from the offending parties), and by late January oboist, composer, and intrepid ultrablogger Katherine Needleman had begun to air some of thes

First, a recapitulatory preamble: Some readers of these pages already know about the affront to the music and memory of Florence B. Price committed by noted Price advocate Yannick Nézet-Séguin, composer/conductor Wolfgang Dörner, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in that orchestra’s annual New Year’s Concert (2025/2026). In an earlier post , troping the familiar cliché that “plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery” and positing that the opposite of plagiarism (presen