Florence loved her mother's piano playing and wanted to be just like
her. When she was just four years old she played her first piano concert
and as she grew up she studied and wrote music hoping one day to hear
her own music performed by an orchestra. This is the story of a
brilliant musician who prevailed against race and gender prejudices to
become the first Black woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer
and be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933.