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Coleridge-Taylor
[kohl-rij-tey-ler]
noun
Samuel, 1875–1912, English composer.
Coleridge-Taylor
/ ˌkəʊlərɪdʒˈteɪlə /
noun
Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
Example Sentences
In the aftermath of the two world wars, Coleridge-Taylor’s music—like that of other late Victorian and Edwardian composers—was seen as old-fashioned and insufficiently complex.
In thinking about the complexity of Coleridge-Taylor’s work and its reception, Mr. Taylor rightly warns against making “what might seem automatic assumptions.”
Mr. Taylor, a music professor at the University of Edinburgh, outlines Coleridge-Taylor’s life and career, beginning with his 1875 birth in London, to an interracial couple, through his death from pneumonia at the age of 37.
None of this played into Sondergard’s or the Bowl’s strengths as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A Minor opened the program.
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.
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