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
- John Malveaux: Surprised to learn that Our Weekly newspaper published my Black Music Month blog June 22, 2017
- NAACP Announces 108th National Convention ‘Steadfast and Immovable’ Coming To Baltimore July 22-26th June 21, 2017
- Talks at the Schomburg: Zines: Elaborate Disruption and Black Creativity: Tuesday, June 27 at 6:30 PM June 21, 2017
- Schomburg Center: Come out to "Bella: An American Tall Tale" and enjoy a special discount for the trip of a lifetime in Kirsten Childs' soulful and saucy new musical June 19, 2017
- The Daily Californian: ‘Ojai at Berkeley’ unites trailblazing musicians in celebration of diverse classical styles [Contralto Gwendolyn Brown in "Afterword, an opera"] June 19, 2017
