{"id":55645,"date":"2018-01-30T04:38:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55645"},"modified":"2018-01-30T04:38:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:38:33","slug":"rcm-museum-celebrates-the-life-of-samuel-coleridge-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55645","title":{"rendered":"RCM Museum celebrates the life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

RCM Museum celebrates the life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Classical-music.com: The official website of BBC Music Magazine<\/a>
\n2017-10-19<\/p>\n

Anna Maria Barry<\/strong><\/a>, Museum Research Assistant
\nRoyal College of Music\u2019s Museum of Music<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nSamuel Coleridge-Taylor<\/em><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

The composer’s musical fight for civil rights is the focus of an intriguing new digital exhibition<\/a>, explains Anna Barry<\/em><\/p>\n

The Royal College of Music Museum<\/a> has launched a new digital exhibition<\/a> about composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor<\/a> (above). Released to coincide with Black History Month<\/a>, the exhibition, entitled Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the musical fight for Civil Rights<\/em><\/a> celebrates the composer\u2019s important role within civil rights movements in the UK and the US at the turn of the 20th century. Coleridge-Taylor was a student at the college and the exhibition draws on his remarkable collections which are held at its museum.<\/p>\n

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London<\/a> in 1875. His mother Alice was British, while his father hailed from Freetown<\/a> in Sierra Leone<\/a>. Dr Daniel Taylor had met Alice while studying in Britain<\/a>, but most likely returned to West Africa<\/a> without realising that she was pregnant. He never met his son. The young Coleridge-Taylor was given a violin by his maternal grandfather, and soon displayed great musical talent. He joined the Royal College of Music<\/a> in 1890, studying composition under Charles Villiers Stanford<\/a>. Coleridge-Taylor soon became a musical celebrity thanks to his trilogy of cantatas<\/a>, known collectively as The Song of Hiawatha<\/em><\/a>. Until World War II<\/a>, this was one of the most performed choral pieces in Britain, rivalled only by Handel\u2019s<\/a> Messiah<\/em><\/a> and Mendelssohn<\/a>\u2019s Elijah<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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