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Requiem: Hiawatha in the 1920s and 1930s.

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| September 22, 2001 | Green, Jeffrey | COPYRIGHT 2001 Center For Black Music Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 had and still has fierce critics--"The design is wrong for anything except gladiatorial combat" was an early comment in The Engineer (Clark 1958, 41). It could hold eight thousand spectators, but it was situated in a residential area, immediately south of Hyde Park, far from other theaters and halls (42, 61). From the moment it opened in 1871, the management struggled to fill its seats. The combination of Coleridge-Taylor's The Song ...

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