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I’m taking a break from arrangements for a while to just goof off on the uke. This was an 11 minute take I trimmed down for ‘gramming. #ukulele #ukulelesunday #microkorg #looppedal #voxamps #kala #makestuffup

Alicia Adélaide Needham (born Alicia Montgomery on October 31, 1863) was an Irish composer and the first woman to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduated in 1887. Her husband, physician Joseph Needham, took an active role in Alicia's musical pursuits by organizing concerts and arranging publications. She wrote over 700 compositions. In 1906 she was appointed President of the National Eisteddfod of Whales, the first woman to hold the title. Shortly thereafter she was made a "Bardess of Wales" under the title "Harp of Ireland." Her productivity ceased in 1920, around the time of her husband's death. Needham's work went largely unnoticed after her death on Christmas Eve of 1945 until her son Joseph, growing in fame as a scientist, uncovered her writings and helped get them archived at the University of Bath and later Cambridge. #ukulele #womencomposers #womenshistorymonth #aliciaadélaideneedham #ukulelesunday

Florence Beatrice Price was an American composer, born in Little Rock, Arkansas on April 9, 1887. Her mother was a music teacher who helped guide Florence's early musical education. Her first composition was published at age 11, and only a few years later she was enrolled at the New England Conservatory, majoring in piano and organ. Due to the attitude toward African-Americans at the time, Price pretended to be Mexican. In 1906 she graduated with honors. After winning first prize in the Wanamaker Foundation Awards in 1932 for her Symphony in E Minor, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered the piece in 1933. This would establish Florence B. Price as the first African-American woman to have a composition played (not to mention premiered!) by a major orchestra. #blackcomposers #blackhistorymonth #ukulele #guitar #ukulelesunday

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

Maurice Arnold Strothotte was born in Missouri in 1865. He began his musical studies in Cincinnati, and he continued his studies in Germany and Poland. He spent some time touring Eastern Europe before returning to America where he worked as a violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer. A student of Antonin Dvorak in 1894, Arnold was part of Dvorak's famous concert at the National Conservatory of Music in NYC. Dvorak favored Arnold, believing he would be a prominent artist in the next chapter of American music. While he didn't quite live up to Dvorak's prolific expectations, he enjoyed a bit of fame for "American Plantation Dances" which he performed at the conservatory. #ukulele #ukulelesunday #blackhistorymonth #blackcomposers #guitar

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