'Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation is organising a seminar / conference...for next year, probably in London.'

[African Heritage Symphonic Series Vol. I; Cover: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Cedille 90000 055 (2000)]

Hilary Burrage of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, http://www.sctf.org.uk/, posts to the LinkedIn Group for the composer about 2012, Centennial Year of the Death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), who is featured at AfriClassical.com:

“SCTF is organising a seminar / conference on SC-T for next year, probably in London. Please start to think how you might like to contribute, everyone! Thank you

“PS You are of course welcome to contact me directly about this: hilary.burrage@sctf.org.uk”

'Samuel Coleridge Taylor Foundation invites articles about Coleridge-Taylor’s US impact'

[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]

The Afro-British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is featured at AfriClassical.com. AfriClassical posts an excerpt from an article by Hilary Burrage of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, http://www.sctf.org.uk/, on the LinkedIn Group “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Britain's Greatest Black Composer”:

These articles will be from historians, scholars and other commentators about the impact of SCT’s life and work in the United States, from the time of his visits until the present. We are aware that this is an area of increasing interest, as more information has emerged about the direct and indirect ways in which Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has helped to shape developments in the USA, both in New York (especially Harlem) and Boston, and elsewhere.

We will be delighted to publish all appropriate submissions in this category on this website (www.sctf.org.uk) and we are hopeful also that a selection of what are deemed to be the most illuminating of these will also be distributed on one or more American websites.

Articles may be of any (website readable) length and should be written in an accessible style; references are welcome, but only when they illuminate the text substantively. Illustrations and photographs are also welcome, with the proviso that in submitting them the author confirms that there is no copyright bar to their publication on the SCTF website. Potential authors are invited to make contact with us via email on the website, to submit possible (ideas for) articles or to discuss their intended submission.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation on Twitter; Hilary Burrage Reviews Jeffrey Green's New Book on Composer

[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]

The Afro-British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com. Hilary Burrage announces that the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation (SCTF) is now on Twitter @SamuelCTaylorFn She invites interested people to follow the SCTF on Twitter.

“Jeffrey Green: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life” was posted on LinkedIn.com on May 29, 2011 by Hilary Burrage of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation:

"Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life is to be published in June/July 2011. It was written by historian Jeffrey Green.

“Jeffrey Green tells SCTF that by using copious contemporary comments, different aspects of the composer have been documented. Green’s discoveries over the completion and premiere of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast may surprise many. The 'first black' influence on Coleridge-Taylor, long stated to have been in 1896 through African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, has been dismissed as the poet was not in England until 1897, after the composer had published a poem celebrating the 50th anniversary of the independence of Liberia, West Africa.

“Coleridge-Taylor’s African and English descent, his family upbringing in Croydon and the scholarship at the Royal College of Music (1893) have all been re-assessed and freshly documented.”

Samuel Coleridge Taylor Foundation Registers as Nonprofit Organization in U.K.

[A Tribute to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Live-A-Music / Ensemble Liverpool (2001)]

On Nov. 1, 2007, AfriClassical posted: “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet & Clarinet Quintet on Hyperion.” Hilary Burrage has left a new comment today:

“You may be interested to know that the first modern day public, recorded performance of the SC-T Piano Quintet was on 7 November 2001, by the ensemble (Live-A-Music / Ensemble Liverpool) whose Director, Martin Anthony Burrage, realised the part scores from a copy of the original full score lodged in the Library of the Royal College of Music. More details of this performance and related events are available here:

http://www.dreamingrealist.co.uk/2006/09/a-tribute-to-samuel-coleridge-taylor

Perhaps it is also of interest to mention that more recently the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Foundation CIC has been registered, to support the promotion, performance and appreciation of the composer's music:

http://www.dreamingrealist.co.uk/2010/09/the-samuel-coleridge-taylor-foundation-cic

We have learned new information from http://www.samuelcoleridgetaylor.org/, but the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor page at AfriClassical.com has long included a brief reference to the Live-A-Music CD: “Live-A-Music is a chamber music ensemble comprised of five members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The group released a limited-edition CD in 2001. The program consists of Coleridge-Taylor's Fantasiestucke for String Quartet, Op. 5, and his Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 1.”