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The amazing portrait of #samuelcoleridgetaylor by @bareface_art for the @centralewhitgift #arttrail . A composer and musician Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was raised in Croydon achieved such success that he was referred to by white New York musicians as the "African Mahler" when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. . He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic poem, Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 22. . He married Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. Their son Hiawatha adapted his father's music for a variety of performances. Their daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor became a composer-conductor. . . #composer #musician #music #musiccity #yourcroydon #yourcroydonpics #centrale #cronx #croydon #eastcroydoncool #londonist #art #streetart #graffporn #mural #southlondon #ldn (at Centrale Shopping Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNO9u5QH_89/?igshid=1bcm5dzox3ibp

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Fascinating biographies of some famous African-American and Afro-European composers. 

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a British composer, born in London on August 15, 1875. His father was a physician from Sierra Leone who, unable to pursue a career in Britain presumably due to racial prejudice, returned to West Africa, leaving behind his wife and son. As a child, Samuel played the violin and sang with the choir of a church in Croydon. He was admitted to the Royal College of Music in 1890. A professor at the college, in teaching Coleridge-Taylor the music of Brahms, suggested that it would be impossible to write a quintet for clarinet and strings without being influenced by Brahms's composition for that combination of instruments. Coleridge-Taylor took the assertion as a challenge and produced a work that received the respect of his professor and later audiences. By 1896 he was teaching, conducting, and judging music festivals in addition to composing. His work was very well regarded, the most successful of which was The Hiawatha Trilogy (based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast (1898), The Death of Minnehaha (1899), and Hiawatha’s Departure (1900). Europe wasn't the only place Coleridge-Taylor found success. He was welcomed during his tours of the US between 1904 and 1910. American musicians dubbed him the "Black Mahler." He was invited to the White House to visit President Theodore Roosevelt. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, only 37 years old, died of pneumonia on September 1, 1912. He was survived by his wife, Jessie Walmisley, his son, Hiawatha, and his daughter, Gwendolyn, known as Avril. #ukulele #ukulelesunday #blackcomposers #blackhistorymonth #samuelcoleridgetaylor #willowsong