Title: | Chamber Music |
Otros títulos: | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor : Chamber Music Música de Cámara Samuel Coleridge-Taylor : Música de Cámara |
Intérprete/ Colaborador: | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Kelly Burke; John Fadial; Mary Ashley Barret; Lynn Huntzinger Beck; Craig Brown; Michael Burns; Andrew Harley; Janet Orenstein; Scott Rawls; Brooks Whitehouse |
Código CDU: | Coleridge.01 |
Forma Musical: | Quintets (Clarinet, Violins (2), Viola, Violoncello), Violin and Piano Music, Dance Music, Nonets (Piano, Bassoon, Clarinet, Horn, Oboe, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass) |
Abstract: | Remembered today as the composer of the once enormously popular cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, the career and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor are—more, even, than Elgar's—emblematic of the Edwardian era in its opulence and its squalor. The son of a Negro doctor from Sierra Leone and an Englishwoman, he rose above the constrictions of class and race to become one of the most acclaimed composers of his time. Musically precocious, Coleridge-Taylor's talent was recognized early and supported by a series of patrons who saw him through composition studies with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford at the Royal College of Music. While still a student, his Clarinet Quintet (1895) achieved critical praise and, through the good offices of Stanford, performance in Berlin by the Joseph Joachim Quartet. A meeting with the American Negro poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, on a reading tour in England in 1896, prompted a lifelong preoccupation with "African" themes, including a number of songs to lyrics by ... |