Longfellow Chorus: 'Coleridge-Taylor Returns to Norfolk June 19'

[Dr. Lester Green leads a performance of the original "Keep me from sinkin' down in the film "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America."] Longfellow Chorus Normally this time of year I'm beginning to plan for next year's Longfellow Choral Festival. However, all future performances have been put on hold in order to recoup funds after seven years of ambitious and  highly original programming. But that does not mean nothing's  happening. I'm very busy finishing — the editing process will probably never be quite complete — and promoting the film "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and  His Music in America, 1900–1912." This  is an example of the mission of The  Longfellow Chorus being fulfilled at its very best and in a long-lasting and evident way. I'll show "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America" in the Battell Recital Hall of the Norfolk Chamber Music  Festival, Norfolk, Connecticut, at 7:30 PM, Wednesday, June 19, as part of the free-admission Music in Context series. This occurs a little over one year after we recreated an aspect of the  premiere of Coleridge-Taylor's Violin  Concerto in G in the Music Shed on the   centennial of the first performance  by Maud Powell—Lydia Forbes's  presentation of Maud's SC-T encore, "Keep me from sinkin' down," for  violin and orchestra. I've created a Norfolk Promo for this event—a 10-minute condensed version of the Norfolk scenes in the two-hour film. What's new in this promo is that I've added to the soundtrack bits of our performance of the Concerto from March 16 with violinist Tai Murray, and a luxurious clarinet and oboe moment from our performance of SC-T's "Bamboula  Rhapsodic Dance." (Bamboula was performed originally in Norfolk in 1910, the composer conducting.) The result is an audible delicate Art Nouveau flavor to the Norfolk scenes in the film.