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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...
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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.
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. It was written and directed by Charles Kaufmann, and produced by The Longfellow Chorus.
"Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his music in America" explores how this remarkable English composer left an untold yet indelible mark on American society. It wi...
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- LongfellowChorus
This exhibition is about composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his key role in British and American civil rights movements around the turn of the twentieth century.
In 1899 Coleridge-Taylor first heard American spirituals sung by the Fisk Jubilee singers on one of their tours. He became interested in African-American folk song and began incorporating it into his compositions.
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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-
