[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com. We are collaborating with the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation of the U.K., www.SCTF.org.uk]
Reynard Burns
Reynard Burns writes:
Hello Bill,
I will be conducting the Island Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite Op. 77 on Sunday May 5. The performance will be held at Suffolk Cpommunity College on in Brentwood NY (Long Island) starting at 3:00 PM.
Thank you again for your support.
Reynard
The Island Symphony Orchestra
Annual Spring Concert
Sunday, May 5, 2013
3:00PM
at the
Van Nostrand Theatre
of
Suffolk Community College
1001 Crooked Hill Rd
Brentwood NY 11797
3:00PM
at the
Van Nostrand Theatre
of
Suffolk Community College
1001 Crooked Hill Rd
Brentwood NY 11797
Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Petite Suite de Concert
Featuring Guest Conductor, Reynard Burns
Samuel Coleridge Taylor (not to be mistaken with the writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge) was, at the end of the 19th Century, one of Britain’s most outstanding composers, often referred to respectfully as the “African Mahler.” Born in 1875 of a West African doctor and a British mother, Coleridge-Taylor belonged to two decidedly different cultures that influenced his compositional style: the classical tradition that dominated his training at the UK’s Royal College of Music, and the African and African-American folk music introduced to him through his father's heritage. At the age of 22 he achieved fame by composing his most famous work: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, a piece of music described as “One of the most remarkable events in English musical history.” A prolific composer during his short lifetime (he died at age 37), he received great public acclaim and became known both nationally and internationally with a published opus of twenty-nine compositions. Besides more ambitious works, he composed lighter compositions, of which the most enduring was the Petite Suite de Concert(1910), a work that set a standard for many subsequent four-movement suites. It begins with the coquettish ‘La caprice de Nanette’ and continues with its most familiar movement, ‘Demande et réponse’, a work of Elgarian grace whose ongoing popularity led to its arrangement as a song ‘Question and Answer’. The third movement, ‘Un sonnet d’amour’ (‘A Love Sonnet’) is a lyrical serenade, while the final ‘Tarantelle frétillante’ (‘Frisky Tarantella’) provides a suitably lively conclusion.
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