Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director of The Longfellow Chorus, is the author of the following post in the Gramophone Forum on August 8, 2012:
The Orchestra of The Longfellow Chorus has just released a recording of a Coleridge-Taylor violin concert piece associated with Maud Powell's premiere of Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto. "Keep me from sinkin'
down," based on the African-American spiritual by the same name, was originally commissioned as the second movement of Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto, though the composer ultimately composed an entirely different second movement. We filmed and recorded Keep me from sinkin' on the 100th anniversary of the premiere, June 4, 2012, on the very stage at the Norfolk Festival where Maud
performed it on June 4, 1912.
There are two ways listeners can hear our June 4, 2012, Norfolk, Connecticut,
performance of Keep me from sinkin' down, with violin soloist Lydia Forbes:
1) By purchasing the mp3 through such online audio stores as Amazon
2) By viewing the trailer to our documentary film, currently in production, "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900-1912."
1) By purchasing the mp3 through such online audio stores as Amazon
2) By viewing the trailer to our documentary film, currently in production, "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900-1912."
The completed
film, about 90 minutes, will be released in March 2013. This is the only recording of the piece. I compiled the orchestra parts from Coleridge-Taylor's original manuscript. Ours is one of the very few performances of the work in history.
Best wishes,
Charles Kaufmann,
artistic director
[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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