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Diversity of
Beauty
January 21, 2024, at 2:00 PM
Music of Vivaldi,
Bach, Mozart, Coleridge-Taylor, Gluck, and Purcell
Morristown
Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, New Jersey
One of the major
composers on the concert is Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a prolific and
amazing composer of the late Romantic period. But who was Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor?
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer
whose music was popular in Great Britain and the United States. He was
sometimes referred to as "the African Mahler," but for most,
he was regarded as an inspired individual in his own right.
Samuel's music was
especially popular in the United States, most notably for his three
cantatas on the poem The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow. In the United States, he became increasingly interested
in his paternal racial heritage.
Coleridge-Taylor
participated as the youngest delegate at the 1900 First Pan-African Conference held
in London, and met leading Americans through this connection, including
poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and
scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois,
influential in the later Harlem Renaissance.
His music is
marked by memorable melodies, rhythmic energy, and
late Romantic
expressive harmonies.
For this concert, Maestro
Butts and The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey will perform three
movements from Noveletten, a set of four orchestral songs that
were meant
to be played individually
in any order.
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