In 2009, renovators cleaning out a dilapidated summer home in St. Anne, Illinois, found piles of moldering manuscripts, including two violin concertos and a fourth symphony, by a composer her country had nearly erased. This episode reconstructs Florence Price's life from Little Rock, Arkansas, where her father was the city's only African American dentist and her mother started her on piano at three, through her enrollment at the New England Conservatory listing Pueblo, Mexico as her hometown to sidestep discrimination.

The hosts follow the Price family's flight from Little Rock after the 1927 lynching of John Carter, her arrival in Chicago's Black Renaissance, her divorce, and the years she spent improvising organ for silent films and writing radio jingles under a pen name to support two daughters. They cover her 1932 Wanamaker prize, the J ...