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Article: From the student to composer: the chamber works.
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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In the files of the Royal College of Music is a report on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's studies under Walter Parratt during the young man's first eighteen months at the school. This "music class" had witnessed his slide from "fair" at the end of the Easter semester, 1891, through "irregular" in July to "very irregular" by the end of December 1891. Sir George Grove, who had presided over college affairs for ten years, commented, "Why this irregularity at the Music Class? Please let me never have to complain again. The rest is very gratifying" (quoted in Royal College of Music Annual Reports 1891). For the Easter term ending on April 2, 1892, the composer received the comment ...