Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at 23
Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director of Longfellow Chorus, reports the time and date of the historic meeting between Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt:
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Today, August 4, 2012, I discovered in
the Library of Congress that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor met Theodore
Roosevelt in the White House sometime between 12 noon and 12:30 PM on
Monday, November 14, 1904. Earlier in the day, I dropped by a choral
rehearsal at Washington's Metropolitan AME Church in preparation for our
filming on August 6 and 7, 2012. If this is an early indication, our
film, "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900-1912,"
will be a substantial and moving contribution to biographies of the
composer.
[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]
Comment by email:
As I remember, T. Roosevelt was busy during his re-election campaign, which is why he didn't get to the CT concert.
Dominique-René de Lerma
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