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 ...

Late Victorian London wasn't an easy place to achieve musical success if you were mixed-race and born outside of marriage, like composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Despite never setting foot in Africa, ...

‘Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink’. These words from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1843) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, refer to the fact that the ocean that girds us is undrinkable, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I think one of the most unique burdens, but also privileges, was to be among the first to lay down what could be the foundation of tradition," violist Paul Laraia said about the Catalyst Quartet's ...

INESTIMABLE is the importance to students of Coleridge of this amazing collection of four hundred letters hitherto unpublished (barring excerpts from a handful, scattered through various publications) ...

A new recording from the Catalyst Quartet of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is part of an encouraging recent trend to celebrate Black classical music composers. It remains to be seen whether much of ...

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 ...

IN the absence of any adequate biography of Coleridge, these two volumes of his letters, 1 edited by his grandson, Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, will be eagerly welcomed. By far the greater part of ...

The Violin Concerto by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor got off to a rocky start. Coleridge-Taylor was an Afro-British composer with an American commission to write a concerto, so he based his music on Negro ...