Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in 1893
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com
which features a comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Dr. Dominique-Rene de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.
On this week’s episode of Music in the Making,
we’re celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a
twentieth-century requiem and a selection of songs by Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor!
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – 3 selections from 6 Sorrow Songs, Op. 57 (1906)
Timothy Jones, baritone; Katherine Ciscon, piano
Moores Opera House
10/5/2012
Our last selection this evening is a collection of songs by Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, one of the most socially ground-breaking composers in
history. Coleridge-Taylor came from a mixed heritage, with an English
mother and a Creole father. He gained worldwide fame for his work Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast and became
influential for his use of traditional African music. In 1904, he was
even invited by President Theodore Roosevelt to the White House, which
was a rare occurrence for people of color. This composition, his Six Sorrow Songs,
use poems written by Christina Rossetti, who is more well-known for her
text “In the bleak midwinter.” The selected songs from this collection
are titled “Oh what comes over the Sea,” “When I am dead, my dearest”
and “She sat and sang always.”
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