In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...

English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor had both racial and musical stereotypes to deal with. He was of African descent, but he wrote classical western music in the early 20th century. Here's his ...

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What more would British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor have written if he didn’t die from illness at age 37? He was mourned across the world then, and he’s celebrated this month, 150 years after his ...

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from ...

At just 19 years old, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was told: don’t imitate Brahms. So he didn’t—he answered him. His Clarinet Quintet uses the same instruments and structure as Brahms’s, but speaks in a ...

In 1906, composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor saw the world premiere of a composition he wrote inspired by his namesake, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at the Queen’s Hall in London. Coleridge-Taylor’s ...

Linton Stephens offers an afternoon of great performances including a live concert from Wigmore Hall with Chineke!, ...

Santa Clarita Symphony Orchestra invites audiences on a vibrant musical journey with its upcoming concert, “Dances the World ...

You could call the new album American Counterpoints another encouraging result of the push in recent years, especially after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, to better represent and ...

The Violin Concerto by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor got off to a rocky start. Coleridge-Taylor was an Afro-British composer with an American commission to write a concerto, so he based his music on Negro ...