Black Music Research Journal articles from September 2001

Black Music Research Journal archives from September 2001

Preface.
September 22, 2001... During the last quarter of the twentieth century, it was evident that musical tastes were leaving the neoclassical realm that had been inhabited by the serialists, anti-Wagnerians, acoustic technicians, and others. A nostalgia for tonality...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: the early years.
September 22, 2001... Biographies and standard reference books state that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London on August 15, 1875, the son of an African man and an Englishwoman. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and had tremendous success with...

The marriage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley.
September 22, 2001... On the last Saturday of 1899, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor married Jessie Sarah Fleetwood Walmisley in his parish church at Selhurst, near Croydon, England. The witnesses who signed the registration were his mentor Herbert Walters and the bride's...

From the student to composer: the chamber works.
September 22, 2001... In the files of the Royal College of Music is a report on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's studies under Walter Parratt during the young man's first eighteen months at the school. This "music class" had witnessed his slide from "fair" at the end of...

"That you came so far to see us": Coleridge-Taylor in America.
September 22, 2001... By the time that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor made his first visit to the United States in 1904, American audiences were not only aware of the status of this young musician as the foremost composer and conductor of England but, by degrees, were also...

A Pan-African composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa.
September 22, 2001... From early published compositions (the seven African Romances, op. 17, for voice), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor consciously projected himself as a composer of lively African sensibilities. His later scores reflect more somber musical influences from...

Coleridge-Taylor and the orchestra.
September 22, 2001... If he had not achieved such an overwhelming success with The Song of Hiawatha, it is possible that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's creativity would have taken another path. The most likely one would have been that established in his years as a...

Requiem: Hiawatha in the 1920s and 1930s.
September 22, 2001... The grand red-brick Royal College of Music on Prince Consort Road in London faces the Royal Albert Hall, a large concert hall that witnessed dozens of performances of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Song of Hiawatha in the 1920s and 1930s. The hall...

Future research.
September 22, 2001... During the preparations for this issue, I was aware that there were several aspects of Coleridge-Taylor that needed action, despite the apparent wealth of biographical and analytical publications. Efforts to add his compositions into the...