COLERIDGE-TAYLOR; SAMUEL

Big Boxes: Columbia’s Black Composers Series Is Back

Jed Distler

In 1974 Columbia Masterworks, in association with the Afro-American Music […]

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An Attention-Worthy Violin Program

Jed Distler

Born in 1993, violinist Samuel Nebyu currently studies at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia under Dr. Eduard Schneider.

African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1

Victor Carr Jr

Cedille Records intends its African Heritage Symphonic Series as a follow-up to CBS Records’ Black Composers Series from the 1970s, and I’m happy to say

VIOLIN CONCERTOS BY BLACK COMPOSERS OF THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES

Victor Carr Jr

This enterprising disc brings to light the violin concertos of four neglected or forgotten composers of African descent. Joseph Boulogne, a.k.a. the Chevalier de Saint-Georges,

Coleridge-Taylor: 24 Negro Melodies

David Hurwitz

Here’s a self-recommending release for fans of 19th-century ethnic nationalism in music. Coleridge-Taylor had Brahms’ Hungarian Dances as his models (Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, don’t forget,

Somervell: Violin Concerto

David Hurwitz

Here are two more Romantic violin concertos from Hyperion, and pretty ones too. The Coleridge-Taylor was nicely done last year (2004) on Avie, with a

Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Cto

David Hurwitz

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor produced his Violin Concerto in the year of his death, 1912, for the American violinist Maud Powell, who coincidentally gave the American premiere