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Article: Coleridge-Taylor work playing in Cambridge
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- October 19, 1995
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Kay Bourne
Bay State Banner
10-19-1995
Coleridge-Taylor work playing in Cambridge.
Songs of love and songs of longing make Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata as dynamic a weeding feast today as ever.
The 19th century master work "Hiawatha's Weeding Feast" was so popular in its day that its British composer, the son of an African, was invited to Teddy Roosevelt's White House. The president put the U.S. Marine Band at Coleridge-Taylor's disposal.
The black community was as enthusiastic, staging a production at the (colored) Y.M.C.A. in Baltimore by the S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society of 175 African American singers. Its popularity in England rivaled the celebrity of Handel's "Messiah" and ...
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