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 ...

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 ...

In 1906, composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor saw the world premiere of a composition he wrote inspired by his namesake, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at the Queen’s Hall in London. Coleridge-Taylor’s ...

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More gaps in the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor discography usefully plugged, lent bright-eyed and polished advocacy by the Ulster Orchestra under Charles Peebles’s sympathetic lead.

‘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, ...

August 14, 2025 • 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 during his lifetime.