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- military officer, composer, music teacher, pianist
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2022-08-15 13:05:21
Coleridge-Taylor and Lili Boulanger, 2022
[…] Festival,” a music festival which rotates among three cathedrals, Worcester, Gloucester, and Hereford and takes its name from the choirs of these cathedrals (the festival is still going strong today). In 1898-1900 Coleridge-Taylor composed three cantatas under the name of The Song of Hiawatha. They became very popular, especially the first part, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. In 1904 Coleridge-Taylor went on a tour of the United State and was received in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt. He toured the US and Canada in 1906 and the US again in 1910, visiting New York, Boston, Detroit, St-Louis, and other major cities. For many years Coleridge-Taylor was the conductor of the Handel Society of London. He died September 1st of 1912 of pneumonia, at just 37 years old. Here’s Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Choral Society and the Philharmonia Orchestra. While it’s not clear to us why Coleridge-Taylor […]
2022-07-21 20:16:10
Adagio for Strings is the orchestral arrangement of the second movement of American composer Samuel Barber’s String Quartet (1936). This music has long been associated in the United States with national periods of mourning, having been performed at the funerals of U.S. presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy) and in the days following the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini first brought the Adagio for Strings to wide public attention. Impressed by some of Barber’s works that he had heard in performance in Europe, he asked Barber for music that his NBC Symphony might
2022-07-01 16:00:45
Watch a world premiere performance of choral songs built on texts from important Washington women, from Kamala Harris and Condoleezza Rice to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elena Kagan and Abigail Adams.
2022-06-28 08:19:27
Voices of Power: Luke Styles' new oratorio at Three Choirs Festival
[…] and the Philharmonia Orchestra at a concert which also includes music by Judith Weir, Sarah Kirkland Snider and the 17th century Italian nun Peruchona.Styles' new work is an oratorio setting text by poet and author Jessica Walker which contemplates the nature of power across the centuries. The protagonists of the piece are seven powerful women stretching over two millennia, from Roman times to the present day: Boudica, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton and Jacinda Ardern. The work was written specifically for Hilary Summers and the young voices of the Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir, whose members are aged 14 to 25.In July 2021, I chatted to Luke about his new opera at the Cheltenham Music Festival, see my interview 'Exploring big themes'. Full details from the festival website.
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