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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

INESTIMABLE is the importance to students of Coleridge of this amazing collection of four hundred letters hitherto unpublished (barring excerpts from a handful, scattered through various publications) ...

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 ...

English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor had both racial and musical stereotypes to deal with. He was of African descent, but he wrote classical western music in the early 20th century. Here's his ...

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 ...