In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...
What more would British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor have written if he didn’t die from illness at age 37? He was mourned across the world then, and he’s celebrated this month, 150 years after his ...
More gaps in the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor discography usefully plugged, lent bright-eyed and polished advocacy by the Ulster ...
At just 19 years old, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was told: don’t imitate Brahms. So he didn’t—he answered him. His Clarinet Quintet uses the same instruments and structure as Brahms’s, but speaks in a ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the ...
On Nov. 9, the Boston Chamber Music Society presented a concert at Sanders Theatre, featuring Wolfgang Amadeux Mozart’s “Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478,” Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Clarinet Quintet ...
The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even... In July 1913, friends of the African British ...