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Juba Dance by Florence Price

Foothill Symphonic Winds - David B. Adams, Music Director "Sound Ideas" Concert, December 3, 2023, Palo Alto, CA Florence Price earned the distinction of being the first African American woman composer to have a symphonic work performed by a major orchestra. Her Symphony No. 1 in E Minor caught the attention of Frederick Stock, the Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who chose it as the centerpiece of a concert performed June 15, 1933, as part of the World’s Fair that celebrated Chicago’s centennial. Juba Dance is the third movement of that symphony, transcribed for concert band by Jay Bocook in 2018. The composer has offered the following background information on the composition: A Juba Dance, also known as “pattin juba” or the hambone originated in West Africa around 1840 and was first brought by slaves to Charleston, South Carolina. It is a fast-paced dance that involved stomping, slapping and patting the arms and legs, chest and cheeks. This plantation dance with the use of “pattin juba,” or now what we call “body percussion,” was performed when instruments weren’t allowed because of the fear that secret codes could be hidden by the slaves in the drumming. The Juba Dance would have a circle of men around two men in the center. They would perform various steps in a call and response – the two men would improvise a response to the call of the other dancers in the circle. There would be a steady, fast-paced beat with a repeating rhythm called an ostinato with improvisation and shuffle steps above it.