[Photo: J. Rosamond Johnson, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and James Weldon
Johnson outside Coleridge-Taylor's home in Croydon, 1905. Image used by
permission of Melanie Edwards.]
Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director of The Longfellow Chorus, writes:
The
filming for "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his music in America" is now
about two-thirds complete, but there are four more exciting filming
sessions planned for August, September and October. Your support for our
project will help ensure that our completed film will cause quite a
stir next March! — Charles Kaufmann
- In late August, in Boston, we film violinist Mariana Green-Hill
performing Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawathan Sketches," Opus 16, for violin
and piano, the young composer's first attempt at creating music from
Longfellow's epic poem -- a charming collection of three pieces.
- In late September, tenor Rodrick Dixon returns to Portland, Maine,
along with Melanie Edwards, granddaughter of jazz great J. Rosamond
Johnson, to film "Under the Bamboo Tree," Johnson's most popular single
ragtime hit, 1901, and to explore the cross influence between Johnson's
and Coleridge-Taylor's music and personalities. His Majesty's Theater
meets Broadway ca. 1905/06 in this fascinating sequence.
- In late October, two young Juilliard graduates, choreographer
Darrell Grand Moultrie and dancer Allison Mixon, come to Portland to
film Darrell's choreography to the Coleridge-Taylor song, "Thou Art
Risen, My Beloved," as sung last week in Washington by Rodrick Dixon.
The New York Times writes, "Moultrie moves his dancers around stage with
remarkable authority... [and] is obviously someone to watch."
- On October 16, four historians participate in a filmed roundtable
discussion about Coleridge-Taylor at the Maine Historical Society in
Portland. Participants: Jeffrey Green, author of "Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life (2011);" Dr. William Tortolano, author
of numerous Coleridge-Taylor studies; Karen A. Schaffer, author of "Maud
Powell Favorites," and President of the Maud Powell Society; and Ann
Havemeyer, PhD, historian of the Norfolk Historical Society.
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