Born in London on August 15, 1875 to a white Englishwoman, who named her son for the famous Romantic poet—and with a father from Sierra Leone, descended from African slaves—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor would become the first musician in England of African descent to achieve international status. As a composer and conductor he would becomes a sensation in his native England—and this success would spread to America as well, where he made three different tours and became known as the "African Mahler."
Sunday morning, during the first hour of Sunday on Blue Lake, Foley Schuler will conclude his Sesquicentennial month celebration of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with the composer's most celebrated and performed work, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, whose success lead the composer to become a sensation at the time.
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday morning from 9 until noon on Blue Lake Public Radio.
