Few if any composers in recent history have made a more spectacular comeback than Florence Price, whose music was all but forgotten after her death in 1953 but is rapidly being rediscovered and revived by myriad ensembles large and small.
Another milestone step in that revival came Thursday evening in the first of three concerts at Symphony Center, when Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented its first-ever performance of Price’s Symphony No. 3 in C minor. Put simply, this musical thunderclap from the past was a triumph.
