Royal College of Music Strings: 'Celebrating Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 6:00pm 3 May 2012 Recital Hall'

Royal College of Music

Strings

Celebrating Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

6:00pm | 3 May 2012 | Recital Hall

Coleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet in G minor op 1

Coleridge-Taylor Fantasiestücke op 5 for string quartet

Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor op 10

This concert commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of pioneering composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, one of the RCM’s most celebrated alumni. All of the works in this programme were written and premiered at the RCM while Coleridge-Taylor was studying under Stanford.

The programme will be repeated in Coleridge-Taylor’s home town of Croydon on 24 May. Part of Universities Week. For more information see www.universitiesweek.org.uk

Free but tickets required

Tickets on sale to RCM Friends from Friday 5 April and to the general public from Thursday 13 April

[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, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com Major observances of the Centennial of Coleridge-Taylor's death on Sept. 1, 1912 are underway and are the work of organizations including the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, http://www.sctf.org.uk]