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Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
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Three biographical essays built around selected compositions and two close examinations of his life in relation to Hiawatha and Symphonic Variations on an African Air.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor In order to expand this site, I have moved the files to a different server. The above link will take you there. Please let me know if you have any problems as you browse the site. Thank you for visiting....Essay by fellow English composer Havergal Brian, beginning with the promise shown by Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. Includes observations of racial progress in the early 1900s.
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/brian/zcoleridgetaylor.htm
Biography from the York Symphony Orchestra with commentary on musical accomplishments and social activism. Includes photograph.
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Coleridge-Taylor Apparently feeling that his career as a surgeon was blocked because he was black, his father returned to Africa, abandoning Samuel and his mother in England. At the age of fifteen, Coleridge Taylor entered the Royal College of Music to...Discography of instrumental works by the African European composer. Includes CD cover photos, a brief biographical essay, and a bibliography.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Afro-British Composer Conductor Taylor trained as a physician at King's College, London. After graduating he found his race was a barrier to maintaining a medical practice in the United Kingdom. As a result he returned to Africa permanently around the time of Samuel's...Illustrated biography includes his medical studies and practice, his musical abilities, and his pioneering work in civil rights, including a visit to President Theodore Roosevelt's White House during an American tour.
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His work led him to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and to obtain a license from the Royal College of Physicians. His father was not a part of Coleridge-Taylor's life, returning to Sierra Leone either before...Music files offered in MIDI format.
http://www.classicalarchives.com/main-c.html#COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Biography noting his familial background, studies, famous works, conducting, and working with African-Americans to promote the dignity of blacks from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=2000
Miscellaneous songs from recmusic.org, one with English text.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Classical Vocal Music) Translators and other volunteers Contact Information Copyright Statement Partial Bibliography Emily's Homepage Emily's Amazon wishlist Please visit Artsconverge, a Lieder-related web-project on which I once did some work. Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning not exhaustive...Illustrated article on his musical and social accomplishments, including promoting and nurturing a new generation of African-descended composers in England and the United States.
http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/pages/entertainment/samuel.htm
Brief biographical sketch with comments on orchestral and choral music and recommended recording.
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Composer English mother and a father who was a doctor from Sierra Leone, has suffered in recent years, although at one time his music enjoyed considerable popularity in England, while as a conductor visiting New York he was hailed by one...