[Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)]
A
documentary promo for a March 2013 film, Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor in America, has been posted on YouTube:
One
hundred years ago, African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(1875-1912) was not only one of the world's major musical figures, he
also exerted an important influence on the post-Reconstruction social
politics of America as represented by such prominent
African-Americans as WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Paul Lawrence
Dunbar, numerous critics in black American newspapers, and composers
and musicians writing and performing ragtime to classical.”
Those
who speak on the video include Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director,
The Longfellow Chorus; Rodrick Dixon, tenor; and Naira Underwood,
violinist. Ms. Underwood says “This is my first time hearing and
performing any work by Coleridge-Taylor, and it was a quite
enlightening experience to be able to play such a work that
integrates so many different cultural elements in a classical
work...”
[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]
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