[Robert
Honeysucker]
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor: The Quadroon Girl (8:16)
Uploaded
by Longfellow Chorus on Mar 10,
2012
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor's setting of Longfellow's poem "The Quadroon
Girl" [Poems on Slavery, 1842], for baritone and women's chorus,
was premiered in 1905 by the Norwich Music Festival Chorus. The
American premiere took place in 1906 at the Metropolitan African
Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, and was sung by the
Samuel Coleridge-Taytor Choral Society, with Harry T. Burleigh
(1866-1949) as baritone soloist.
The
Longfellow Chorus and Orchestra made this recording during the 2010
Longfellow Choral Festival in Portland, Maine, February 27, 2010,
with Robert Honeysucker, baritone soloist. Not successful in finding
Coleridge-Taylor's original orchestration of the work, I orchestrated
The Quadroon Girl during the summer of 2009 in the style of
Coleridge-Taylor from the 1905 Breitkopf and Hartel piano vocal
score.
This
video is brought to YouTube by "The 2013 Longfellow Choral
Festival: Longfellow & Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Complete
'Hiawatha,'" which will take place on March 16 & 17, 2013,
in Portland, Maine, USA. More information at www.longfellowchorus.com
-- Charles Kaufmann, artistic director of The Longfellow Chorus.
[Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is featured at AfriClassical.com. Major observances of
the Centennial of his death are underway and are the work of
organizations including the Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, http://www.sctf.org.uk]
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