Events

Whilst it's the aim of the SCT Collective to disseminate information about SC-T related activities, especially events, the truth is that we can only do so much - so we are happy to point you to other sites/organisations. But still scroll down, because we may have some info, particularly our or related organisation events, that's not highlighted elsewhere! 

Check out Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 100PM Collective related events.

Check out the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation's events page.

Check out the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network's events page


Check out the Year-long SCT Croydon Festival programme

Scoll down to check bits and pieces of SC-T related activities & events: 


Click to hear Kwaku's SC-T presentation @ the National Archives


Africans In Classical Music: From Samuel Coleridge-Taylor To Okiem Monday Nov. 16 2015, 6.30-8.30pm @ Harrow Mencap. Free. Led by Kwaku http://bit.ly/HarMen


SC-T Piano CD launch event 12 September 7pm. Bluthner Centre.

There is still an opportunity to book a seat at this event.

www.facebook.com/events/1410273439185311

Three Choirs Festival Hiawatha on BBC 3 7.30pm; 12 September

If you are outside London and cannot come to Waka’s CD launch you can listen to the BBC broadcast of the Three Choirs Festival performance of Hiawatha at 7.30pm.

Waka and Colleague 24 September at Fairfield Halls. 1.05pm

Waka and her piano duettist colleague are performing at this lunch-time concert

www.fairfield.co.uk


Review of Waka’s CD 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was one of the late romantic era’s most appealing, poetic voices, but admittedly not an especially original one. He did very well things others had already done very well, which along with his death at age 37 explains his undeserved obscurity. Coleridge-Taylor’s best music - the Violin Concerto leaps to mind - is so gorgeous, tuneful, and immaculately-crafted that his place in the mainstream repertoire deserves to be secure. Some of this “undiscovered” piano music belongs on that shortlist.
 
The three Cameos, Op. 56 begin the CD with an excellent summary of Coleridge-Taylor’s style: influences of Dvořák, American-style melody, and piano writing which is poetic but never especially taxing. The second Cameo is probably catchiest, a humoresque-type encore that would suit someone like Stephen Hough; you can almost hear the birth of Gershwin’s style. Of the Valse Suite, Op. 71, it’s again the second which is the standout. These waltzes are so emotionally varied, and so well-differentiated by Waka Hasegawa, that they feel like a coherent suite of different works, not just a series of waltzes.
 
The most substantial single movement on the disc is a scherzo-style Moorish Dance, Op. 55, which runs nearly ten minutes. It doesn’t sound especially Moorish - the excellent booklet essay says it is “limiting the Arab element to what a British audience would not find too alien” - but it’s a rhythmically complex, engaging piece, like a tamer Chopin scherzo. To me the ‘trio’ theme is very charmingly American. The suite of Forest Scenes is appealing enough but not on the same level, despite the composer’s attempt to inspire himself with titles like “Erstwhile They Ride the Forest Maiden Acknowledges Her Love.” It’s a reminder that Coleridge-Taylor wrote a lot of his music to meet the deadlines and pay the bills.
 
As mentioned, we’re indebted to Waka Hasegawa for her sensitive, very capable performances of this music, and the engineers give Coleridge-Taylor a chance to be heard at his best. The record label, Metropolis, is also listed as the publisher of this music, but if these are world premiere recordings, or if the music really has been newly rediscovered, the booklet does not say so. Possibly a page explaining the music’s provenance has gone missing from my copy; my booklet is a PDF, downloaded along with the album from Clas sics Online, and the pages are all out of order.
 
So if the late-romantic piano repertoire of Dvořák, MacDowell, Paderewski, and the encores on those Stephen Hough piano albums is your kind of thing, give this a try and enjoy it. Pair it with a glass of wine.
 
Brian Reinhart 
www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Sept13/ColeridgeTaylor_piano_mr1301.htm

17 October. Waka concert. St John the Evangelist , South Norwood. 7.30pm.

Sean Creighton


The Song of Hiawatha. 1 August 2013. 7.45pm. SC-T's music returns to the festival where he had his first major hit in the 19th century: Three Choirs Festival 2013. Gloucester Cathedral. http://3choirs.org/events/coleridge-taylor-the-song-of-hiawatha.
An evening with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Talk by Sean Creighton as part of South Norwood Festival. Friday 5 July 2013. 7.30pm. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Centre, 194 Selhurst Rd, London, SE25.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Promotion at Croydon Heritage Festival Street Stall Event. Saturday 8 June. Historian Sean Creighton will be running a stall to promote the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network, and to sell his publications and second hand history books at the Whitgift Foundation Heritage Festival day event in Market St in Croydon Town Centre.


Unveiling of SC-T plaque at his last home12 noon on Sunday 30th December 2012 @ 6 St Leonards Road (formerly known as Aldwick) off Warrington Road, Croydon CR0 4BN 

The Chairman, Stephen Harrow and the Artistic Director, Jonathan Butcher of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Centenary Festival 2012 invite you to the unveiling of a plaque at  Aldwick, to celebrate and commemorate Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s life and works at the conclusion of the year long Centenary Celebrations. Followed by a reception with lunch at the Old Town Youth Centre, Duppas Hill Terrace, Croydon, CR0 4BA - by kind invitation of the Deputy Mayor of Croydon, Mr Tony Harris.   RSVP to   jonathanbutcher@blueyonder.co.uk.

Samuel Coleridge Taylor – Life and Legacy of a forgotten Musical Hero
November 9 2012, 10:30 - 11:30am @ Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, Croydon

Capture the imagination of your pupils… SC-T ranked with the classical greats of his day, Edward Elgar, and Charles Villiers Stanford, but achieved his success with a fusion of styles drawn from the traditions of folk African, European classical, and Black-American music. SC-T’s story is brought to life through the performance of ‘Song for the World’.  The dancers and singers tell their simple story with verve and energy. It tells of SC-T’s early life, his existence unknown to his own father, the shift of different homes round London, how music became his outlet, and then his passion, and  how it ignited the fame he achieved with the performance of his piece  ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast’.
Soundpractice is working with London composer Stella Coussell, and vibrant theatre company Studio 74 are preparing for a theatrical presentation of his life story.  This uplifting and engaging musical will appeal to children aged between 8 and 12. Connect your Black History classroom teaching to this inspiring event. Engage with the message of Samuel’s story ‘Believe in yourself and aim for your dreams’.
Contact Fairfield Halls Box Office for tickets online or by telephone:  http://www.fairfield.co.uk/showChoosearea.php?showid=22381 or 0208 688 9291.



Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (15 Aug 1875 - 1 Sept 1912) - an African British musical genius & pan-Africanist
Friday Sept 21 2012, 6.00-8.30pm
Free

To book: www.SCT2012Brent.eventbrite.com
History consultant Kwaku leads on a family-friendly audio-visual presentation on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (SC-T), the African British classical music composer and Pan-Africanist.  The presentation will provide a synopsis of SC-T’s life, work, and legacy, and enable the audience to hear bits of his work -
hear some of SC-T's music and find out a bit more about this once global superstar!
This will be followed by a Q & A. Host: Cllr James Allie. Organised on behalf of BTWSC/SCT100PM Collective. There will be books and cakes on sale
Brent Town Hall (Committee Rooms 2/3), Forty Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 9HD 

Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is an audio-visual presentation by SCT100PM Collective co-ordinator Kwaku which highlights the life and works of SC-T, an African British composer and pan-Africanist. It will reference some of the Archives resources. Thursday Sept. 20 2012, 2-3pm at the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU. Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444. For more details, click here.
Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (15 Aug 1875 - 1 Sept 1912) - an African British musical genius & pan-Africanist also on:
Wednesday Oct 31 2012, 2.30-4pm. Streatham Library for Lambeth schools
Wednesday Oct 31 2012, 6.30-8.30pm. Putney Library, 5-7 Disraeli Road, SW15 2DR. 020 8871 7090
Thursday Nov 1 2012, 2.30-4pm. Brixton Library for Lambeth schools
For more information: Awula Serwah  btwsc@hotmail.com
www.SCT100PMCollective.blogspot.com


Mira Quartet / Hiro Takenouchi (piano)

28 Oct, 2012, 17.50
- Amy Tress violin
- Joseph Devalle violin
- Natasha Silver viola
- Peteris Sokolovskis ‘cello
17.50 - Pre-concert talk: An Introduction to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Brockway Room)
  • Bridge: Three Noveletten
  • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet in G minor Op.1
  • Dvořák: Quartet in E flat Op.51

£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30



Charles Elford: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at National Portrait Gallery
Celebrate the remarkable life of a composer who rose from humble beginnings to international celebrity with biographer Charles Elford.

August 23 2012, 1:15 PM (Doors open promptly at 1:00PM). Free @ Ondaatje Wing Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE

This is the NPG blurb for this event: On Slavery Remembrance Day celebrate the remarkable life of a composer who rose from humble beginnings to international celebrity. With biographer Charles Elford. I do not see how this event can relate to enslavement. SC-T was not a product of enslavement, and whilst a pan-Africanist, enslavement was not a theme of his work or life!


Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875–1912 Exhibition
The display documents Coleridge-Taylor’s increasing fame, with an early publicity photo complete with facsimile signature, inclusion in a group image of fellow-composers (including Elgar and Ethel Smyth) and posthumous renown on a cigarette card.  An intriguing oil study painted when he was a child is complemented by a stunning portrait by E.O Hoppé.

July 17 2012 - March 17 2013

Free

Room 29 case display
National Portrait Gallery. St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Click for more information about this exhibition.


Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (15 Aug 1875 - 1 Sept 1912) - an African British musical genius & pan-Africanist
Saturday June 23 2012, 2.30-4.30pm
Free

To book: www.BBMM2012SCT.eventbrite.com
History consultant Kwaku leads on a family-friendly audio-visual presentation on the life and work of the composer and pan-Africanist on behalf of BTWSC/SCT100PM Collective

Hear some of SC-T's music and find out a bit more about this once global superstar!

Gayton Library, 5 St John's Road  Harrow, Middlesex HA1 2EE (Harrow On The Hill) 020 8427 6012

Celebrating Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
6:00pm | 3 May 2012 | Recital Hall

Click to book
Amy Tress violin
Joseph Devalle violin
Natasha Silver viola
Peteris Sokolovskis cello
Jonathan Musgrave piano
Yeil Ko violin
Katherine Sullivan violin
Patrick McEntee viola
Ed Harper cello
Hannah Murphy clarinet
Colette Overdijk violin
Jian Ren violin
Nina Poskin viola
Alice Hoskins cello
Coleridge-Taylor Fantasiestücke op 5 for string quartet
Coleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet in G minor op 1
Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor op 10
This concert commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of pioneering composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, one of the Royal College Of Music’s most celebrated alumni. All of the works in this programme were written and premiered at the RCM while Coleridge-Taylor was studying under Stanford.

The programme will be repeated in Coleridge-Taylor’s home town of Croydon on 24 May.
Part of Universities Week. For more information see www.universitiesweek.org.ukwww.universitiesweek.org.uk
 


Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (15 Aug 1875 - 1 Sept 1912) - an African British musical genius
History consultant Kwaku leads on an audio-visual presentation on the life and work of the composer and pan-Africanist for students and staff on behalf of BTWSC/SCT100PM Collective
Ghana International School, Accra, Ghana
Wednesday March 21 2012.



Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (15 Aug 1875 - 1 Sept 1912) - an African British musical genius
History consultant Kwaku leads on an audio-visual presentation on the life and work of the composer and pan-Africanist for students and staff on behalf of BTWSC/SCT100PM Collective
Claremont High School, Kenton, Middx

Thursday February 23 2012.

Andrew Tait & Friends Presents music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Extra SCT Croydon Festival Events
The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network is in the process of organising and encouraging others to arrange events in 2012 across the country and is represented on the Croydon SC-T Festival Committee.
A programme of talks and walks around Croydon will be announced in due course and posted on the SC-T Network website. The Network will co-ordinate news, disseminate information and promote activities during the 2012 centenary year and beyond.



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Selected SC-T Events March 2012 And Beyond
Events culled from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network Newletter No. 9 (March 2012):
On Sunday 11 March at 3pm the Tallis Chamber Orchestra led by Diana Cummings will be performing SC-T’s 4 Novelletten at St Peter’s Church, Westleton, Suffolk, along with Vaughan Williams Concerto Accademico and Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings.

Croydon Festival Chairman Stephen Harrow is preparing the choir programme for St John the Evangelist Church at Shirley in Croydon for Choir Sunday on 14 October and Advent Sunday on 2 December.

Jeff Green and Sean Creighton are preparing for publication later this year a pamphlet on SC-T’s life  to be published under Creighton’s History & Social Action Publications imprint.

Writer and broadcaster Andrew Green is making a Radio 3 programme about Coleridge-Taylor. He wants to make contact with anyone who remembers “seeing or taking part in any performances of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast or The Song of Hiawatha”  at the Royal Albert Hall: Andrew Green.

Friday 23rd March, 8pm
TALK AND RECITAL
'Coleridge-Taylor's Croydon,'
Short talk by Chris Bennett (Borough Archivist for Croydon) followed by:
Recital by students from the
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Includes SC-T's
Sonata in D minor op. 28 for violin & piano
Trio in E minor op. 6 for violin, cello & piano
Nonet op. 2 for 2 violins, viola, cello, bass, clarinet, bassoon, horn & piano

The Braithwaite Hall (Croydon Town Hall), Katharine Street, CR9 1ET.
Tickets: £8 from 0208 657 7909

Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(15 Aug 1875 - 1 Sept 1912) - an African British musical genius
An audio-visual presentation on African British history & music*
When: Thursday March 29 2012, 3-5pm
Where: WEB Du Bois Memorial Centre, Off First Circular Road,
Cantonment, Accra (near the American Embassy)
Cost: Free. To RVSP, book or for more information: Awula Serwah, info@btwsc.com, 020 024 0338, www.btwsc.eventbrite.com
*UK-based music industry and history consultant Kwaku will lead a Powerpoint-assisted presentation on the life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (SC-T), one of Britain’s favourite composers of the early 20th century, and introduce some of his works, including ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast’, which at one time vied with ‘Messiah’ and ‘Elijah’ as one of Britain’s most popular choral composition.

Saturday 28 April, 3-6pm-ish
Surrey Opera Open Rehearsal and Informal Performance
Working on SC-T’s
Symphony in A minor, op. 8
Zara’s Ear-rings, op. 7
Rhapsody for voice and orchestra.
The rehearsal will be followed by tea and an informal performance of the two works at approximately 7.30pm. All welcome!
Please contact: -
Jonathan Butcher – jonathanbutcher@blueyonder.co.uk 07762 560537
if you would like to take part etc.
Venue – Clyde Hall, Clyde Rd. Croydon, CR0 6SZ.
There will be a charge of £8 per person

Events culled from HSAP British Black History Digest No. 6 (March 2012):
Friday 1 June, 7pm. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: the life of the African British musician (1875-1912). Talk by SC-T biographer (‘Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, A Musical Life’) and historian Jeff Green. Free. No need to book. More information from Sean: sean.creighton1947@btinternet.com. Part of Wandsworth Heritage Festival. Sponsored by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network.

SC-T History Talk by Kwaku @ National Archives
BTWSC/BBM/BMC heralds African/black history month with this presentation. Thursday September 20 2012, 1-2.30pm at the National Archives (map) Booking and further details to be confirmed. For more info: editor@BritishblackMusic.com. Details will be posted in due course at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/visit/events.htm.
Click to hear the podcast.