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Article: "That you came so far to see us": Coleridge-Taylor in America.
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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By the time that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor made his first visit to the United States in 1904, American audiences were not only aware of the status of this young musician as the foremost composer and conductor of England but, by degrees, were also becoming acquainted with his music. Following the European model, American choral organizations had historically adopted the masterworks of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn as staples of their repertory. But in the year following the London premiere of Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, American choral societies began to tackle this "experimental" and "modern" work, which was based on the words of ...