Daily Classical Music Post

This February, the Daily Classical Music Post celebrates Black composers and musicians whose music has been suppressed and ignored. All of these musicians should be added to the music history and music theory curriculum. https://youtu.be/EPRNWXsdb90 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was named for the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Originally, his name was not hyphenated, but apparently a printer inserted one by accident so the composer decided to keep it. Coleridge-Taylor studied composition at the Royal College of Music, studying with Charles Villiers Stanford. He was a professor at the Crystal Palace School of Music and the conductor of the Croydon Conservatoire Orchestra. In his early 20s, he was mentored by Edward Elgar, who referred to Coleridge-Taylor as “far and away the cleverest fellow going amongst the younger men.” Coleridge-Taylor’s music was a great success both in Europe and in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed him to the White House in 1904, and p...