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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Revisited: Black History Month 2020
It was a pleasure today to celebrate Black History Month with an ‘e-talk’ about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (‘SCT’) to friends from the Castlehaven Community Association Ageactivity 60+ group, and the Camden Local Studies Centre and Holborn Library (all in London, UK). Tony … Continue reading
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SCTF Speakers Join Panels For Commemorative Events
Two Autumn 2012 events in London (on Friday 5th and Tuesday 16th October) will commemorate the centenary of the death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, with speakers from the SCT Foundation presenting their findings on the composer’s life and works. Friday 5th … Continue reading
SCTF Patron Daniel Labonne Writes About Community Embedded Arts
Daniel Labonne, an SCTF Patron and founder of the original Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Society back in the 1990s, has published a book, Empowering The Performer, which draws on his experience of setting up an arts organisation in Africa. Here Daniel Labonne describes ‘Six … Continue reading
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Centenary Legacy (1st September 2012)
1 September 2012, was the centenary anniversary of the death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Below is the appreciation of Coleridge-Taylor, man of music and protagonist for equality, which I wrote to mark this significant milestone for the Huffington Post UK, along with … Continue reading
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Tagged 1875-1912, AfriClassical, Black Composer, British, centenary, Center for Black Music Research, Charles Kaufmann, Dominique-Rene de Lerma, Huffington Post, Jeffrey Green, John McLaughlin Williams, London, Musician, Pan-African Conference, Pan-African Congress, Racial Equality, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Suzanne Flandreau, William Zick
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Memories of Hiawatha in the Royal Albert Hall
Two of our readers have recently very generously sent us material relating to the Hiawatha performances at the Royal Albert Hall in years around the 1930s. We are grateful to George Parnell for this Programme of Hiawatha performances, and to … Continue reading
UK charity Black Cultural Archives collaborates with SCTF
We are delighted that the Black Cultural Archives have invited the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation to collaborate with them on shared information and the BCA archiving materials concerning Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. This is exactly the sort of joint working which SCTF seeks in order to take forward our objective of ‘bringing people together through music’. Read more about BCA’s new Black heritage centre. Continue reading
Dominique-Rene de Lerma donation of Coleridge-Taylor bibliography and list of works to the SCTF website
In a hugely significant step towards realising our intention to bring Coleridge-Taylor’s life and works to public attention as he deserves, the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation was delighted in 2012 to announce that the distinguished American researcher and scholar Dr. Dominique-Rene de Lerma generously entrusted us … Continue reading
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Events in 2012: the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor centenary legacy
Here is the definitive list of SCT events for 2012! We have established an Events calendar (or diary) as a special page on this website, on which we intend to list every event we know about, whether in the UK … Continue reading
SCTF invites articles about Coleridge-Taylor’s US impact
The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation is inviting articles for publication on this website from historians, scholars and other commentators about the impact of SCT’s life and work in the United States, from the time of his visits until the present. We are … Continue reading
Bringing Coleridge-Taylor’s scores to performance by ‘time-share’
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was, and remains, Britain’s greatest Black classical music composer. He died however aged only 37, and until this last year there has been no formally constituted organisation to celebrate his legacy and take forward his reputation. This … Continue reading
Coleridge-Taylor conducts his work in Liverpool (19 October 1908)
We have here photographs from an original published programme covering three concerts in the Fifth Season of the ‘Liverpool Symphony Orchestra Ltd’. The second of these was a concert in the Sun Hall, Kensington, on Monday, 19 October 1908 commencing at 8 pm, the latter half of which was works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, conducted by the composer himself. Continue reading
The case of the patched trousers: was Coleridge-Taylor impoverished as a student?
There has been quite a debate about whether Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was, or was not, financially comfortable as a child and young man. Jeffrey Green‘s meticulous research, for instance, has established that Coleridge-Taylor’s grandfather / father-figure, Benjamin Holmans, was a man of significant … Continue reading
The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Society in Croydon (1994-)
The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Society was inaugurated in Croydon in 1994. It was founded (and then chaired) by Daniel Labonne, who at the time lived in that historic town, just south of London. The SCT Society was active for some ten years, and it was Daniel … Continue reading
A Note On Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Early Work
Coleridge-Taylor’s early works were for chamber ensembles – probably the only performance forces available to him at the time. These works lay almost completely unacknowledged for the best part of a century. The Opus 1, or first formal work, Piano … Continue reading
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A Tribute To Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912) is known almost exclusively for his large-scale work, ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast’. There is however much more to this fascinating man than just one work, including the story behind his very early … Continue reading
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The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation CIC
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) is acknowledged as the greatest Black British composer of ‘classical’ music, his best-known work being Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast; but there were many other facets also to the achievements of this important musician … Continue reading
2012 Is The Centenary Of Coleridge-Taylor’s Legacy.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor died on 1 September 1912. He was just 37 years old. 2012 is therefore the centenary of the legacy of this important musician, a man who made his mark not only in music, but also as an example … Continue reading
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