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Samuel Coleridge Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912. To order a DVD copy of this film contact director@longfellowchorus.comMy documentary from 2013 about the English...
A two-hour documentary, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912 (2013), was made about him and includes a performance of several of his pieces, as well as information about him and his prominent place in music.
Coleridge-Taylor often proclaimed his own African heritage through his music and sought to draw on African melodies, and saw it is a form of his own expression and exploration. Most notable pieces...
The film contains mini documentaries about the lives of American violin virtuoso Maud Powell -- the first Victor recording star -- and American ragtime composer J. Rosamond Johnson, both inspired by and influenced by Coleridge-Taylor.
By the time that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor made his first visit to the United States in 1904, American audiences were not only aware of the sta-tus of this young musician as the foremost composer and conductor of England but, by degrees, were also becoming acquainted with his music. Following the European model, American choral organizations had his-
28 de abr. de 2021 · Coleridge-Taylor wrote opera, orchestral, church and chamber music, as well as incidental music for plays. He also worked as a conductor, beginning in the 1890s, when he conducted the Croydon Conservatoire orchestra – in 1904 he was appointed conductor of the Handel Society.
Coleridge-Taylor made the connection between Native Americans and African Americans explicit by modelling the main theme of his Hiawatha Overture on the spiritual ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble...
