[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 LongfellowChorus
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."
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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