Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation
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A radio programme-maker asks: Do you recall ‘Hiawatha’ at the Albert Hall, or elsewhere?
Andrew Green writes: Can you help? In this, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s centenary legacy year (2012), I’ll be fulfilling a long-held ambition to make a radio programme focusing on the famous Albert Hall ‘Hiawatha’ performances of the 1920s and 30s – the high-point in Coleridge-Taylor’s recognition as a composer of real worth. My task now is to find as many … Continue reading
‘Thelma’, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s only full-length opera, performed at last
Jonathan Butcher writes: Up until 1900 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (born in 1875) had had little to do with composing for the theatre. His main body of work was choral and orchestral and, of course, his most famous opus, and the one that catapulted him to fame, was his major oratorio, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. His involvement with the theatre, though Herbert Beerbohm Tree, with all its colourful characters, magic and intrigue, may well have been the very spark Coleridge-Taylor needed to spur him on to write his only full length opera. Continue reading
‘Hiawatha’ at the Liverpool Philharmonic, 19 November 2011 (Culture Pod Visit)
Richard Gordon-Smith writes: Event 1 of the Curious Minds ’Culture Pod’* A visit led, and here reported, by composer Richard Gordon-Smith, to hear the RLPO perform Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. The first Pod’s outing on our odyssey through the culture of creativity began at a restaurant, followed by a concert at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, where the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra … Continue reading
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on Google
- Radcliffe fellow interprets poetry through song May 14, 2013
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours | The Black Past ... May 12, 2013
- BlackPast.org: 'Hilary Burrage...of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ... May 12, 2013
- AfriClassical Samuel ColeridgeTaylor Historian Round Table in ... May 10, 2013
- Teacher Appreciation Week | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Montessori ... May 10, 2013
Articles from William J Zick’s Africlassical website
- 'Symphony No. 1 in E Minor' of Florence B. Price can be purchased from 'A-R Editions, Music of the United States of America' May 22, 2013
- 'How can we engage young singers to champion repertoire of Langston Hughes among others?' May 22, 2013
- Jessie Montgomery named Sphinx Virtuosi's Inaugural Composer-in-Residence May 21, 2013
- Dr. Elizabeth A. Sellers, California State University Northridge, Provides Original American Music for 'SYMPHONY of BROTHERHOOD' Concert Aug. 18 May 21, 2013
- Errollyn Wallen Awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music 2013 May 21, 2013
