Coleridge-Taylor
Americannoun
noun
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It’s a vigorous work of mid-20th-century Neo-Classicism, and has fine company on the album in another: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Sinfonietta No. 1, with a wrenching slow movement and a driving finale.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
A former child prodigy who won a scholarship to the Coleridge-Taylor Music School at the age of eight, Bonds forged a path as a composer in 1930s Chicago.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2022
Sphinx Virtuosi This chamber ensemble made up of some of the top Black and Latinx soloists in the country performs works by Ginastera, Coleridge-Taylor, Jessie Montgomery and others.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021
Some are Goosby’s enduring influences — like Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, whose “Blue/s Forms” were dedicated to Sanford Allen, another of Goosby’s heroes and the first Black member of the New York Philharmonic.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2021
They greatly impressed the mixed-race British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, whose 1905 Negro Melodies were arrangements of the Jubilee Singers’ best-known spirituals.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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