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Article: Coleridge-Taylor and the orchestra.
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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If he had not achieved such an overwhelming success with The Song of Hiawatha, it is possible that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's creativity would have taken another path. The most likely one would have been that established in his years as a student at the Royal College of Music, where he made a considerable reputation as a composer of instrumental and orchestral music.
The Longfellow cantata created an almost insatiable demand for more choral works. Coleridge-Taylor's orchestral skills would be exercised in these, but in a secondary role. Nevertheless, even here the orchestra was arguably his prime concern. It was essential to his musical thinking, as can be seen in ...