is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which
features a comprehensive Works List and a
Bibliography by Dr. Dominique- René de Lerma,
[Rachel Barton Pine performing
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Deep
River in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900- 1912.]
April 12, 2015
Portland, Maine
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This is a truly superb production with some very
moving dialogue and some incredibly musical performances. . . . The last chapters of the film were really enlightening. The performance of ‘Keep Me from Sinking Down’ on the film drew me to tears. . . . The 1911 [Deep River] recording of Maud Powell and the superimposition of Rachel Barton-Pine’s performance was an amazing technical achievement. . . . These are my ramblings following my deep appreciation of the truly great documentary film 'Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912'. [Michael S. Wright, Chair, African to American Music Society, Shebbear, Devon, U.K.]
For a limited time, I've made available for free web viewing
the complete 2-hour version of my 2013 documentary, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900- 1912, through Vimeo.com. Beyond a number of leading Coleridge-Taylor experts sharing their knowledge of facts and their personal opinions about SC-T during the centennial year of his death (2012), you will see and hear a number of first recordings of SC-T works, as well as examples of Fisk Jubilee Songs and the related music of J. Rosamond Johnson. (Can you find the clips of Malcolm Sargent conducting Royal Choral Society singing Hiawatha's Departure outside Royal Albert Hall superimposed over the images of our Longfellow Chorus in Washington singers in Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington?) This is not the final cut of the film. I still have several clips from an additional SC-T expert to edit into the film at some future point. As it is, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900- 1912, cements a moment in time one hundred years after the death of this Sierra Leonean-English composer. Our Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in America, 1900-1912, The Movie Facebook Page has gained numerous friends from Freetown and other places in Sierra Leon; it's been especially interesting for me to witness these young people connect with SC-T, and to read their Facebook timelines. I'll be updating progress on the final cut in the coming months. Charles Kaufmann, Artistic Director
The Longfellow Chorus
PO Box 5133 Portland, Maine 04101 | |
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