Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Longfellow Chorus: Free Lecture-Screening of 'Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912', 5 PM Feb. 11, 2014 at Boston University

[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com. We are collaborating with the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation of the U.K., www.SCTF.org.uk]


February 2014 Lecture Schedule

February 11, 2014, 5 PM


Boston University
African American Studies Program 
138 Mountfort Street
Brookline, Massachusetts.

This event is free and open to the public.

February 15, 2014, 7 PM

Lecture: Death Song of a Mighty Nation: Finding Traces of Hiawatha in Longfellow's Maine Childhood

Hiram Historical Society
Hiram Community Church
14 Hancock Avenue
Hiram, Maine

Charles Kaufmann, founding artistic director of The Longfellow Chorus, explores Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's childhood interest in the history of Maine's Wabanaki tribes, and how several early poems and other teenage writings generated themes and motives that would form the basis of The Song of Hiawatha, written decades later.

February 18, 2014, time and location t.b.a.:


Oberlin College & Conservatory
Oberlin, Ohio

Sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory Black Musicians Guild.

February 27, 2014, 7 PM

Longfellow 207th Birthday Lecture: Death Song of a Mighty Nation: Finding Traces of Hiawatha in Longfellow's Maine Childhood

489 Congress Street 
Portland, ME 04101 
phone (207) 774–1822

Charles Kaufmann, founding artistic director of The Longfellow Chorus—with notable guests—explores Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's childhood interest in the history of Maine's Wabanaki tribes, and how several early poems and other teenage writings generated themes and motives that would form the basis of The Song of Hiawatha, written decades later. With dramatic reading, music and a birthday cake.

February 2014, date, time and location t.b.a.:


Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

See you in February!

Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director
PO Box 5133
Portland, Maine 04101

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