Charles Kaufmann: 'Five Violinists Rally Behind Coleridge-Taylor' (3:32) on YouTube

[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)]

Kerby Louis Roberson

Five Violinists Rally Behind Coleridge-Taylor (3:32)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyqvJGVzAA&feature=youtu.be

Charles Kaufmann of The Longfellow Chorus of Portland, Maine writes:

In this promotional video for our documentary, "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900--1912," five violinists make the case for Coleridge-Taylor as a source of inspiration, passion, enchantment, legend and transcendence: 

Kerby Louis Roberson, age 12, performs from one of Dancla's Airs variés, which was one of the first compositions performed in public by the young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Mariana Green-Hill plays from "Sing to Us, O Chibiabos," Coleridge-Taylor's Opus 16, No. 2 ("Three Hiawathan Sketches"); Rachel Barton Pine presents a portion of Coleridge-Taylor's "Gypsy Dance," Opus 20, No. 2; Maud Powell (with the help of Rachel Barton Pine) plays part of her transcription of Coleridge-Taylor's "Deep River," Opus 56, No. 10; and Lydia Forbes offers the closing of "Keep Me From Sinking Down," one of Coleridge-Taylor's last few compositions. 

This final work was filmed with The Orchestra of The Longfellow Chorus in the Music Shed of the Norfolk Music Festival on the centennial of the work's premiere by Maud Powell, June 4, 2012.

[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]