Tuesday, September 4, 2012

GenealogyFinders: 'I asked if there were any of Samuel’s descendants here and was surprised to see a couple of hands shoot up.'

We present an excerpt from a post dated September 4, 2012 on the Centennial lecture given by author Charles Elford at the National Portrait Gallery of the United Kingdom.  A further brief quote appears below:

 GenealogyFinders
"At the question and answer session at the end of the talk I asked if there were any of Samuel’s descendants here and was surprised to see a couple of hands shoot up.  It was great speaking with them."

[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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  1. Charles ElfordSeptember 16, 2012 at 9:09 AM

    I am so pleased this blogger enjoyed the National Portrait Gallery talk last month. My aim has always been to help bring Coleridge-Taylor, the man, back to the fore of our collective consiousness. He really doesn’t deserve to be deemed ‘obscure’. He was held in such high regard and with such affection by those who were there with him at the time that it seemed fitting to base my book around those accounts of him by his wife, daughter and friends. In my talk, I actually only read from the book written by Coleridge-Taylor’s friend, the Croydon librarian W C Berwick Sayers, ‘Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Musician; his Life & Letters’ (Augener Ltd, 1927). I received such a wonderfully warm response to the talk. Many thanks to you for posting these kind comments.
    Charles Elford
    Author of ‘Black Mahler: The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Story

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