Saturday, August 18, 2012

Charles Kaufmann: 'Laverne Goldman: A Living Link to Coleridge-Taylor'

[Laverne Goldman in YouTube Video]

Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director of The Longfellow Chorus, writes:

Hi Bill,

I just posted this video of an interview I did last week in Washington with an eighty-year-old Metropolitan Church chorister whose grandfather used to tell of witnessing Coleridge-Taylor during his trips to Washington and Metropolitan in 1904 and 1906. She speaks in moving terms, and you get a sneak "listen" to tenor Rodrick Dixon singing "Onaway! Awake, beloved!" as it will appear in our film next March, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900-1912:

Charles Kaufmann

Laverne Goldman: A Living Link to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (4:54)
          Published on Aug 18, 2012 by
During filming for our documentary, "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900--1912," Laverne Goldman shared her memories of her grandfather, Jefferson Harvey Clark, 1861-1945, who personally witnessed and was inspired by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor during his visits to Metropolitan A. M. E. Church in Washington in 1904 and 1906. In her eighties, a Metropolitan chorister herself, Laverne gives wider context in moving terms to Coleridge-Taylor's visits to Washington over 100 years ago. The background music in this video is taken from Coleridge-Taylor's most popular tenor aria, "Onaway! Awake, beloved!" as sung by tenor Rodrick Dixon and played by pianist Dr. Lester Green, Metropolitan music director, on August 6, 2012, shortly before this interview took place.—Charles Kaufmann, Producer/Director of "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900--1912."


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