b'Chadwick. After graduation, she taught at several Black colleges before returning to Little Rock. Under the burden of increasingly restrictive Jim Crow laws and with the rise of lynchings in the 1920s, Little Rock became too dangerous, and in 1927 she moved to Chicago. This began an exciting period for Price professionally, with the opportunity to participate in the citys vibrant cultural and musical life. She became a leading composer in Chicago, winning composition contests and having her works performed by orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, the Womens Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, and the Michigan WPA Symphony. Price was extremely prolific, composing nearly three hundred pieces, including three symphonies, piano and violin concertos, and many songs which were performed by the leading Black artists of the time including Marion Anderson, Leontyne Price, and Roland Hayes. Despite these successes, by 1943 she was struggling for performance opportunities, a problem which she attributed to the unique challenges she faced as a composer who was both a woman and a person of color. Price continued to compose throughout her life, but her music was neglected after her death. In 2009, a large trove of her papers was discovered quite by accident in an abandoned house that had once belonged to her on the outskirts of Chicago, including many manuscripts that had been presumed lost. The Andante moderato is the second of the two movements of Prices String Quartet in G Major. Composed in 1929, it is thought not to have been played between the composers death in 1953 and the revival performance in 2015. This beautiful piece is written using Black musical idioms, though the thematic material itself is entirely original. The movement opens with a warmly vocal texture that employs the pentatonicism and rhythms common to spirituals. This is followed by a slightly more energetic theme in the relative minor which uses blues idioms and features dialogue between the sections of the ensemble. A playful dance riff is at the center of the movement, before a reprise of the minor key theme and a return to the calm of the opening spiritual material.continued.princetonsymphony.org/ 13'