The Glory of the Day | LeXander Bryant Meets Florence B. Price

February 9 – March 8, 2024 | The Curb Center

For the Curb Center’s latest exhibition, The Glory of the Day: LeXander Bryant Meets Florence B. Price, Bryant turned his attention to another kind of community: the communities of musicians and audiences that took shape around the performance of classical music composed by Florence Price. The Curb Center commissioned Bryant to document Florence Price: A Celebration, a Vanderbilt Blair School of Music initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts that honors the legacy of Price, a groundbreaking 20th-century American composer and the first African American woman to have a composition performed by a major orchestra. The resulting photographs surpass mere documentation; they are standalone works of art that capture the energetic, ephemeral nature of performance and illustrate Bryant’s artistic engagement with Price’s music.

Read More At — https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/02/08/photographer-lexander-bryant