American ragtime composer J. Rosamond Johnson (left), and his brother,
James Weldon Johnson (right), one of the founding leaders of the NAACP,
pose with English classical music composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(center) in 1905 outside his home in Croydon, England.
Charles
Kaufmann of The Longfellow Chorus of Portland, Maine sends this link:
Maine Business
October 5, 2012
October 5, 2012
Some say that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's single claim to fame rests on
his opera-like setting of Longfellow's epic poem, Song of Hiawatha,
which was performed numerous times during the composer's lifetime. But
100 years after his death on September 1, 1912, Afro-English composer
Coleridge-Taylor’s larger impact and influence on American culture
remains largely unsung. The list of his musical works includes over 100
compositions written in the classical style of the late-Victorian and
Edwardian periods—nearly two dozen are settings of Longfellow's poetry.
Join Longfellow Chorus Artistic Director Charles Kaufmann, moderator, at 7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 16, at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, 489 Congress Street, as seven noted historians and scholars gather in a roundtable discussion to answer this question: "Who was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor?" The event will be filmed as a scene for "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) and His Music in America, 1900–1912," a documentary being produced by The Longfellow Chorus for premiere in Nickelodeon Cinema in Portland during the March 16 & 17, 2013, Longfellow Choral Festival.
Roundtable participants include Jeffrey Green, English historian and author of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life (2011); Ann Havemeyer, PhD, historian of the Norfolk (CT) Historical Society; Thelma Jacobs, historian of the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C.; Charles I. Nero, PhD, Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and in the Programs of African American and American Cultural Studies at Bates College in Lewiston; Karen Shaffer, president of the Maud Powell Society; Wayne Shirley, former music specialist at the Library of Congress; and William Tortolano, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Saint Michael's College in Vermont.
Join Longfellow Chorus Artistic Director Charles Kaufmann, moderator, at 7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 16, at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, 489 Congress Street, as seven noted historians and scholars gather in a roundtable discussion to answer this question: "Who was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor?" The event will be filmed as a scene for "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) and His Music in America, 1900–1912," a documentary being produced by The Longfellow Chorus for premiere in Nickelodeon Cinema in Portland during the March 16 & 17, 2013, Longfellow Choral Festival.
Roundtable participants include Jeffrey Green, English historian and author of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life (2011); Ann Havemeyer, PhD, historian of the Norfolk (CT) Historical Society; Thelma Jacobs, historian of the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C.; Charles I. Nero, PhD, Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and in the Programs of African American and American Cultural Studies at Bates College in Lewiston; Karen Shaffer, president of the Maud Powell Society; Wayne Shirley, former music specialist at the Library of Congress; and William Tortolano, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Saint Michael's College in Vermont.
Terrific picture of great men
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