Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation
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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
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 aware that this is an area of increasing interest, as more information has emerged about … Continue reading
Recalling my Father’s reminiscences on Hiawatha
Richard Gordon-Smith writes: My father David Gordon-Smith* was born in 1915. In the very class-conscious (by today’s standards) 1920s and ’30s my father’s parents would have been considered ‘lower middle class’. Their cultural aspirations included occasional theatre and concert attendance, musical evenings in their home for friends, participation in amateur operatic performances and the acquisition of … Continue reading
Jeffrey Green: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life is to be published in June/July 2011. It was written by historian Jeffrey Green. Jeffrey Green tells SCTF that by using copious contemporary comments, different aspects of the composer have been documented. Green’s discoveries over the completion and premiere of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast may surprise many. The “first black” influence … Continue reading
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on Google
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Articles from William J Zick’s Africlassical website
- Blouinartinfo.com: ‘Harlem Quartet: Game-Changers’ at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles October 15, 2017 August 23, 2017
- The Harlem Chamber Players has reached its 10th Anniversary Season, which will kick off on Friday, September 29 at 7 PM. Joseph Joubert plays at Opening Concert August 22, 2017
- VerdeNews.com: Violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama in "Classical Jewels" at Red Rocks Music Festival in Sedona September 10, 2017 August 22, 2017
- NOBLE: Passing of Former Inglewood, California Police Chief Raymond Johnson August 22, 2017
- CHICAGO SINFONIETTA OPENS 30th SEASON WITH A BANG OF CARIBBEAN SOUNDS, Contemporary dance AND two world premieres IN TRADEMARK August 21, 2017
