True or False: Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 was premiered at the 1932 World’s Fair, entitled An Experiment in Modern Music.

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True or False: Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 was premiered at the 1932 World’s Fair, entitled An Experiment in Modern Music.

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The prompt presents a true/false statement about Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1. 
Option: True - This would assert that the symphony premiered at the 1932 World’s Fair and carried the title An Experiment in Modern Music. In evaluating this, we note a couple of historical details. First, the 1932 World’s Fair in Chicago did showcase modern American music, but Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 is generally documented as having its premiere in the early 1930s outside that particular fair event, and its premiere venue and program history are not aligned with a 1932 World’s Fair premiere.
Second, the phrase An Experiment in Modern Music describes a program or concert concept rather than the formal title of Price’s Symphony No. 1 itself. Symphonies typically have a formal opus or numbering title, while concert programs may bear descriptive captions; conflating the program title with the work’s official title leads to a misconception about the work’s identity.
Option: False - If we say the statement is false, we are indicating that the premiere did not occur at the 1932 World’s Fair, nor was the work simply titled An Experiment in Modern Music as its official designation. A common point of confusion arises from the association of Price’s music with experimental or modernist concert events, but those associations do not equate to the specific claim made in the statement.
A common misconception to address is assuming that all notable premieres tied to World’s Fairs match the exact year and naming pattern described in the statement; in reality, the premiere of Price’s Symphony No. 1 has a different premiere context and the programmatic label does not constitute the work’s formal title.
In summary, the claim as written combines an incorrect premiere venue/year with an inaccurate interpretation of the title, so the statement is not correct.

202570_MUS20_74021 Ch. 7 Quiz

True or False: Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 was premiered at the 1932 World’s Fair, entitled An Experiment in Modern Music.

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