British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a standout both for his talent, and also because he was a Black artist who moved in almost entirely white circles. His most famous work is a cantata he composed in his early 20s.
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hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm holly fry and I'm tracy v, wilson, hey. We didn't get this title backwards in case any of you had a moment of like that's, not right.
If you were hoping for Samuel taylor, coleridge the english romantic poet, who wrote Reimer the ancient mariner and kublai khan. Sorry out of luck today,.
I really am wondering how many people may respond to our social media posts about this episode.
Similar to when we did charles shape in a lot of people that it was going to be. Charlie chaplin got confused, yeah samuel, colors taylor.
And because we are talking about a british composer who was a stand out both for his talent and also because he was a black,
artists who moved in almost entirely white circles. When that was pretty unheard of the DES. That's the confusion. There would tell you in the first part here
for the poet his music kind of fell out, a favor for a while in the mid twentieth century, but the last several decades. His work has had a bit of
revival mps a pretty interesting figure, both as a
the composer and as kind of an interesting study in race.
in both england and the u s, because he had a lot of u s, connections and how that impacted. This person's life, who was a celebrity but was also in the middle of a lot of a lot of issues that you know, tend to get put to the wayside when you think of someone who has privilege of celebrity, but they were still present in his life, so that your dying about today so samuel, coloreds taylor at that time, with no hyphen, was born on august fifteenth, eighteen, seventy five and holborn one,
in cars named after samuel taylor coleridge, as we just said, and apparently his mother, a lot of time called him by his middle name, coloriage as a young adult. His last name was hyphenated basically by accident in print he just rolled with it. So his last name morphed from taylor to coleridge taylor, so sometimes we'll be referring to him as samuel, sometimes as coloured
taylor yeah. That's the the name. His family took him, his children took so I dont I never found out if there was an actual
legal moment of changing it or if he just adopted at every one, was like yeah. That's fine names,
aside right out of the gate there.
our some other discrepancies in his family records and the various biographies written about him.
So his mother Alice Taylor was a white englishwoman her
name is recorded as humans on the birth record, his father,
Who is listed on his birth certificate as Daniel Hugh taylor? Was
Sierra leone
although Alice's last name at the time of samuels birth, is given as tailor it. There is no record or evidence of Alice and Daniel ever having married to further complicate things. Samuels father left london months before samuel was born. He probably did not ever know that alice
pregnant Daniel was a surgeon who had been studying it taunton and kings college london, and once he either finish,
two studies or he became
frustrated at the lack of opportunities available in england. He left how that's told is a little different from telling detailing were also going to talk about him again, a little bit later
so in his early life, Samuel was exposed to a lot of music when he was five or six eastern
playing the violin, it took lessons from a musician named Joseph back with an account given by back with years later here.
And he had seen samuel out the window of his home playing
marbles, while holding his violin and
but he had asked the boy to play for him. It became clear he had been given some lessons at that point back with, took him on as a student and taught him for the next
In years, Samuel also joined the church choir
time line is also fuzzy there. I read one pretty intense breakdown of it
people were trying to the writer was trying backdate. Ok, then wended back with start teaching m verses. This claim that he had been playing since he was five or six did back with
beat him at that age or later it's all a little unclear but
less and samuel move from holborn to croydon when he was still very young, and this plus some support that he received from people around him in his music studies as a child.
Also offer some clues an mysteries. Regarding his family said
those mother Alice, as we said, did not have the last named taylor. She also did not have the last name homelands. As appeared on his birth record, the name ass she used was Alice. Hair Martin
and this does align with Samuels grandmothers last name she was Emily, am martin, so why?
was homelands, entered as Alice's name on the birth record. There.
There. Are people named homan in samuels early life? Those are bench.
and Sarah homelands, although sometimes they are called by homan without the s and that blurs the details even more, while their exact familial really
ship with Alice and samuel is fuzzy and a lot of accounts, they were involved in his life. They were specifically integral to his musical education and a biography of cords taylor.
for the british library board MIKE Phelps rights quote, the confusion might well have been a deliberate strategy to circumvent the stigma of illegitimacy
On the other hand, if the allies of the birth certificate was the same woman as alice hair martin, it's not clear how or why she and her son shifted with such ease from the worst slum in the city, to the relative safety of suburban croydon and the warm bosom of a respectable working class.
There is speculation that the confusing information related to say mills, father offered on birth records was deliberate. It really wasn't possible to conceal that samuel was multi ray.
But his mother could at least sidestep any scandal or disadvantage that her child would have from having been born out of wedlock.
So there have been a variety of speculations about this entire dynamic with Alice in the home came to be, but when it all shakes down, it appears that Benjamin homan or homelands was probably Alice's biological father.
Alice his mother, Emily had also not been married when Alice was born. Census
records are not all in alignment regarding miss an eighteen sixty one.
Census of the homes household mentions for children of benjamin, and
there are none of whom are Alice, but then in eighteen. Seventy
I am an eighteen eighty one though census records include her as a daughter, coleridge taylor did refer to,
benjamin homelands as his grandfather. So that seems to be what the situation is here in an article. Four black
Zack research journal from two thousand one biographer Jeffrey green, who wrote a whole book on him later that I was not able to get my hands on.
in the case that some biographies
knowingly fudge these details because of that statement that we talked about and that has made it really tricky to unravel all of it. Over the years, samuel was Alice's first child, but soon he had said
Lings his mother married a railroad worker named george evans in eighteen, eighty seven and they had three children together the whole men's paid for samuels music lessons and gave him his first violin wish
note that samuel was not the only musician and the family. His younger brother victor also went on to have a musical career and their other siblings.
also learned music through formal lessons, but samuel being the only multi racial
out in the family faced a lotta racism that his siblings did not his classmate see later recounted called him call
lee. Yet there is also a side discussion to be had about the musicality of this family because, like the homes were not especially musical, Benjamin Homan was, I think, a farrier, but the kids. I got music lessons and they ve tended to be pretty good at it.
The church choir that we mentioned a moment ago, also lead to a mentorship of samuel by the choir master. That was colonel Herbert a walter's walters,
the professional merchant, but he was also an amateur musician who volunteered with the choir at saint Georgia's church of croydon, and he saw so much promise and samuel wall.
Terse later arranged for samuel to meet with charles grove, who was the head of the royal college of music and grove, was impress enough that
coleridge taylor you at this point was only fifteen was given
scholarship and he enrolled with the college that same year,
they usually samuel started at the royal college of music as a violin student, but he also started taking composition. Classes is professor in composition was
Charles billiards Stanford an anglo irish composer whose considered one of the most influential of the late romantic era, but
Stanford was not be only impressive figure and tailors life at the school composers. Like gustaf, halt sin ralph VON Williams played concerts. There is also a place where, if the law is true, he didn't have to shoulder the racism alone, because the schools leadership dealt with bigotry. That was aimed at him here
on. In one instance, Sir Charles villiers, Stanford overheard, another student make a racist remark and quickly and publicly informed this person that his talent level was
so far below that of the young man that he had just insulted. Yeah did seem like they stuck up for it.
That doesn't make it go away. I've rightly better, sir, but he at least had support of people older than him and were in power
while he was still a student at the royal college of music colored taylor, had his first composition. Pebble
despite naballo in company. That was an anthem too.
build in d o lord, so in this case
we're using the word anthem in its meaning, as a quarrelled him of praise.
the following year and develop published several more of his anthems. Amidst all happened before he started formally taken composition classes
and it's actually during these early publications that that hyphenation of his name happen. So this
Officially in the early eighty nineties, when he becomes coloreds taylor instead of tailor in aid
He may be three having already gained a reputation for the music he had published coleridge taylor
give him a scholarship to study composition at the school and eighty
Ninety five colored taylor won the leslie alexander composition prize, and then he wanted again the next year in eighteen. Ninety six. He also began a friendship that lets you a collaborative relationship. Friendship was with Paul Lawrence. Dunbar dunbar was three years older than cords taylor. He was one of the first black poets from the united states to really be recognised for his mastery
The field dunbar was originally from Ohio and he was visiting london in eighteen. Ninety six, when the two of them mad colored taylor, had heard about them
or his arrival in england and had sought him out. He went right to where he was staying. It's sell dunbar. He wanted to work with his poems. The two of them shared the trait of having been drawn to their fields very early in life
Just as samuel was playing music from the age of five dunbar had written his first poem at the age of six, both of them continued their life paths from there.
So listeners. If you're trying to place dunbar, you would recognise his poem sympathy, that's his most famous in it includes the line. I know why the caged bird sings it comes up twice in the final stanza
you associate that more with my Angela inasmuch as she
Inspired by this poem to use. That line is the title of her autobiography in eighteen.
These seven colored taylor,
dunbar created their first project together. That with seven african romances, these were songs with lyric
by dunbar and music bi coloured taylor may quickly followed that with an operatic romance titled dream lovers that was about to moroccan men, one of them a prince, they fall in love with two sisters at the age of twenty one say: middle started, conducting an amateur orchestra in croydon and would conduct music with very
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While he was in school. Samuel met fellow royal college of music student jesse. Sarah fleetwood warmest lee,
she was a singer and a pianist, and with six years older than samuel therein,
connection happened because jesse needed a to help would do at four p m o and violin. I was eighteen. Ninety two and samuel was just seventeen jesse.
pleated her time at the rcm and eighteen. Ninety, three! So right about the time that coleridge taylor was beginning, his composition, studies in earnest,
by february eighteen. Ninety eight jesse was singing with the choir of the korean conservatory of music, which gave a concert, including works by colored taylor. Exactly when their relationships started is not clear because it really seems like the two of them kept things really quiet their instinct to do. That was valid once the news broke, that they were a couple. Jesse's family did not receive that news. Well, at all, the warmest liese referred to same we all using a racist epithet and when samuel and jesse now their plans to get married
The family was deeply opposed to the union. They made some really gross and bigoted arguments to jesse about all the ways that marrying this man, because of his race would ruin her life.
In the autumn of eighteen, ninety eight coloreds taylor had success with his original composition. Titled ballade in a minor not want to claim at the gloucester three choirs festival
This was a commission that had originally been offered to composer edward eldar, but he was unavailable and he recommended coleridge taylor instead, noting that the young composer was incredibly clever. This is one of many
instances where coleridge tailors career was really helped along by people with a lot of clout in musical circles. He recognized just how extraordinary his talent and skill were,
later in eighteen. Ninety eight colored tailors composition, hiawatha as wedding feast made its day. We you and this piece, which was inspired by the eighteen. Fifty five longfellow poem song of hiawatha brought almost instant fame to this young composer. This piece is a coral work that sets the language of the poem to music.
It was published by naballo and then had its performance debut on november eleventh hour, cm with his mentor stanford. Conducting one review of that debut performance. Red quote. The production of MR coleridge tailors cantata hiawatha wedding feast on friday evening at the royal college amused.
marked another step forward in the career of that promising young composer, the highway
The meter is for musical purposes the most intractable in the world.
There is no getting away from its persistent lilt. One feels doubly grateful to Mr Coleridge.
Elyria for his musicians, the treatment of a difficult subject-
further review from the birmingham daily, gives that from november twenty second red quote hiawatha as wedding feast, cantata for tenor, solo chorus, an orchestra words by longfellow music by s,
words. Taylor is a very favourable example of this kind of writing and amply sustains the reputation of the composer as a musician of genius. It often happens
that the review are in his fear of doing even the smallest and justice pauses to reckon
center and over and over again reverts to the music submitted to his judgment. But nothing of the kind is needed here from the first to the last. The work runs on easily spontaneously and imperfect accord with the words some courage is needed to attack such a libretto. People started referring to coloreds taylor as the black mahler,
One of the most famous commentaries on this piece actually came from composer, sir, Arthur Sullivan of gilbert and Sullivan fame, who, despite not feeling great at this point in his life, went to this performance because it had been advertised as
The latest thing of this up and coming genius- and he wrote
and his diary after seeing the premier that he had found the composition quote fresh and original as well as quote brilliant and full of color. He talks about how much it is is pretty poetic
at it with the success of hiawatha wedding feast and the high profile that came with it. Jesse's family,
grudgingly cooled in their objection to the couples relationship. Listen this
not as though they magically stop being racist, but the fame and the fortune that they thought would come with it.
Made them amenable enough to at least ten jesse and samuels wedding in eighty ninety nine. He also produced thick walls to the very popular hiawatha as wedding feast. The first was many ha ha which,
Viewed in october, eighteen, ninety nine at the north staffordshire music festival. The next was hiawatha departure, which was published in the spring of nineteen hundred. These three pieces of music were intended by coloreds taylor as a trilogy and was also proof
wormed and published in it's entirety under the same title as the poem that inspired it, which was the song of hiawatha, but those seconds to parts of the trilogy didn't garner the same level of praise as the first performances of hiawatha, his wedding feast as a stand alone, piece also continued and coloriage taylor conducted most of them in the years following its debut in its first five years. Two hundred performances of it were
agent, england yeah. It was hugely hugely popular jesse and samuel had their first child that same year that the trilogy was completed a son and they named him hiawatha,
Three years later, they welcomed a daughter named gwendolyn of real. As his family grew colored. Taylor started taking a variety of jobs. He took teaching jobs and also playing for recitals. He started guest conducting. He started working with theatre productions. Basically he took any paying job. He could
It involved music, he was still composing, but he knew he needed to generate regular income to support jesse and the children and thankfully, because of his name wreck
mission. He was able to find quite a lot of opportunities. In addition,
producing new music and becoming apparent coloreds taylor also started.
the admirable collaboration in nineteen hundred. He worked with her majesty's theatre, which is now his majesty's theatre, just built in eighteen, ninety, seven by actor manager herbert beer bomb tree. The first project that coloreds taylor was brought in for with the production of link
lessons in nineteen hundred. He also attended the nineteen hundred pan african conference that took place in london in westminster town hall in July,
This gathering was organised by Henry sylvester Williams, trinidad he a barrister living in england at the time who founded the african association in london in eighteen. Ninety seven, this early effort of the pan african movement focused largely on issues facing the black populations in the u s and imperial european nations and calling for recognition of the rights of people of african descent. If you have read the w e bead two boys line, the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the collar
I'm which appears in the forward to the souls of black folk which he published three years later. You would also recognised that in the addressed to the nations of the world that was drafted at this conference to boys was in attendance at the conference. The address calls for the end of mistreatment and sacrifice of african people in pursuit of wealth and also calls out the use of alleged good intentions as a way to excuse colonization and enslavement.
That's in the passage quote. Let not the cloak of christian missionary work be allowed in the future, as so often has happened in the past to hide the ruthless exploitation and moral destruction of less developed nations whose chief fault has been reliance on the plight word of the christian church, so the role of black identity and colored tailors life in some ways seems kind of fragmented.
It could definitely be interpreted as somewhat tragic. He never knew his father and though he was generally perceived as black by people who met hammer just saw him
on the street, he was raised in an entirely white household and he was at the time the only black person in his school or among his professional peers and mentors to be cleared. The royal college of music had had
your black student before him. There was not anyone, though, in his immediate circle, who really understood what his life was like in its clear when you think of
That's why he would have so eagerly welcomed the friendship and collaboration that he had with Paul Lawrence dunbar and his work seems to reflect this search for connection to other people of color is
destination with long fellows, Hiawatha narrative is invoked as an example of this, because coloreds taylor links the two cultures musically and the peace there is
echo of the spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen incorporated in the hiawatha overture and
from hiawatha, looks for his father, who has left his family behind and that fled biographers to speculate about that being part of colored tailors personal connection to the written material. Additionally, when he first heard the turing, fisk, jubilee singers on it,
we have england and eighteen ninety nine. He was instantly intrigued by black american folk music and started to study it that incorporate elements of it in his own work. One of the things that becomes really apparent when looking at coloriage taylor's life is that, beyond anything else, he was a very hard worker. If we're going to talk about the many jobs and projects that he juggled that we haven't even touched on. Yet when we come back from a sponsor break, this episode of stuff you missed in history class is brought to you by nintendo
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before his marriage and his theatre work. Samuel coloreds taylor had been the croydon symphony, orchestras conductor. We mention that any had remained in that role until that group disbanded in nineteen o three. He simultaneously served as the rest
conductor for other groups, including the rochester coral society in the westmoreland festival. As a lecturer, he taught about music in his home.
in creating for several years before becoming part of the trinity college of music teaching faculty in nineteen o. Three though it would
theme that he was already plenty busy at this point. He also started developing concerts with musicians from the defunct croydon symphony orchestra and he bankrolled two programmes with them himself under the name coleridge taylor or
stroke concerts, overlapping, all of that conducting work, he partnered with her majesty's theatre.
And in nineteen o too, for production of herod, you started conducting the handbill society that year, he also
It is first tour of the united states that was that the united states first exposure to his work two years before that a colored taylor society had been formed in the u s, and that group had really heavily promoted his work and had staged performances of his compositions.
They invited him several years earlier in nineteen o wine and he had turned the invitation down, presumably because he
so busy. In the immediate wake up the hiawatha trilogy being completed, it was in really hides a man, so by the time he arrived in nineteen o, for he was already famous in the: u s so much so that he was introduced to president Theodore Roosevelt. He was asked to conduct the: u s marine corps band, Emma coloreds taylor, society, chorus together the audience for that performance was large
about twenty seven hundred people, two thirds of those attending were black that same year as that. First, u s: tour coloreds tailors father doktor Daniel Peter Hughes, taylor died, and at that point it seems that,
bull kind of new or had figured out that he was the composers father, because that fact appeared in the obituary that was published in the british medical journal on October. Twenty second nineteen o form
that obituary reads quote: the death is reported from the west coast of africa of doktor Daniel Peter Hughes, taylor, one of the earliest,
and most successful of the west african native practitioners of british medicine. He received his education at kings, college london, where he graduated in eighteen. Seventy four: he lived at bathurst, the principal town of the gambia protectorate there he occupied the post of coroner and was also a justice of the
is for the colony doktor taylor was, we believe, the father of Mister samuel, coleridge taylor, a writer of sacred music Emmy, author of hiawatha, the grave stone
A doktor taylor has in gambia also allegedly notes that he is the father of say. Millcote words tailor the next couple of years.
Really filled with just an ongoing flurry of the kind of work we ve been talking about already, and nineteen o five colored taylor started teaching at the crystal palace, school of art and music
he published twenty four negro melodies that year as well riding in the introduction quote what brahms has done for the hungarian folk music dwarf jacques for the bohemian and green for the norwegian. I have tried to do for negro melodies, the meaning here, as that he was
trying to show the merit of music that was associated with black culture, which was so often derided. The coleridge taylor orchestral concerts that had been created from the remnants of the croydon symphony orchestra evolved once more to become the string players club
Nineteen o six and colored taylor was their honorary leader. He was not paying production costs out of pocket any longer. The production of
euro that was staged by herbert beer bomb tree that year took up a lot of color reaches time. It had a full score
he also travelled to the. U s once again to tour, and this time he had an even wider reach of cities included in the itinerary. His next project with beer bomb tree was fast and nineteen o eight and nineteen tat. He started teaching at guildhall school of music as their composition. Professor. There was also a third: u s, tour, that year, once again, bigger than
previous one, his fame had continued to grow and north american audiences were eager to hear the musical adaptation of Henry Wadsworth long fellows epic poem on that nineteen. Ten tour color
Taylor was invited to conduct not only for black orchestras, but also for entirely white orchestras. After returning to
and then cords taylor work on his final collaboration with herbert beer, Bonn tree, which was othello that production they viewed in nineteen twelve. I
saw, but was not able to confirm that he was the first black conductor invited or allowed to conduct an all wait orchestra. I don't know if that's true, but it seems like
nah. There were several new compositions that he made after that. Third us tour petite sweet to call sayer and a cantata titled a tale of old japan which use the poem by Alfred Noyes, as it's inspiration were both published in nineteen eleven
He sent the book for a commission titled violin concerto across the atlantic to the? U s for its premier in early nineteenth, twelve, that bert,
of the composition never made it and is lost because he had shifted aboard the titanic. This was obviously a man who stayed busy if you're wondering why a famous composer had to take so many jobs to make ends meet, because that was not a job that made me,
It's artists, wealthy and color. In taylor's case, he, like a lot of other composers, had accepted a flat fee for the rights to publish his compositions hiawatha as wedding feast earned him twenty five pounds. Fifteen pounds
But no ella made a lot more money than that from the many many additions that the company published over the years. When the follow up pieces of that trilogy were published, colored tailor made a lot more, for them are reported to have been a fifty pounds which will a lot. But again that was a one time payment. One of the aspects of his life, which isn't really reflected in the significant list of projects and accomplishments,
just how deeply his life was affected by racism. It was something that his daughter wrote about in her book the heritage of samuel coleridge taylor that was published in nineteen, seventy, nine, and in that
but she shares memories of the way that her father was treated when he was out in public as a black man, particularly when he was with his wife jesse.
he may have been celebrated as a composer, but just as a person going about his business, he was often met with racism. He was particularly wounded when passers by would make insulting remarks about his wife or his children.
So his daughter, who at this point, was using her middle name of every real when she wrote this biography described him at one point as gripping her hand so tightly that it hurt when they were out in public, and he anticipated racist comments from other people on the street. This is
name it. He didn't seem to talk about a lot, but it obviously caused him considerable stress. The story of samuel coloreds taylor is sadly too short, while waiting for a train at west croydon station on august twenty eightth nineteen twelve, he collapsed. He was taken to his home and on September
First, nineteen twelve he died as cause of death was no mona. That's believed to have been exacerbated by over work.
he was buried at band and health cemetery. He was only thirty seven when he died and his death was front page news. Yet he had one of those funerals that was just like attended by what seemed to people there. Every hue
alive. It was huge abba because he was still so young. His family was still dependent on his income when friends and
colleagues realise that his compositions didn't earn royalties. There was a whole lot of effort to try to find ways to drum up financial assistance that they would be
table. There was a memorial concert at royal albert hall on november twenty second and the ticket sales, all of which went to jesse, and the kids totalled more than fourteen hundred pound
once there were also college fund set up for hiawatha and gwendolyn of real and a pension was arranged for jesse, while coloreds tailors work.
Fell out of favor for awhile, and he was more or less for gotten by the middle of the twentieth century. There's been a huge effort to get his work back on, some music stands and performed, and that's really wonderful, because now there are lack.
if recordings and videos of it available online. So you two can listen to things like hiawatha as wedding feast. I have not listened to this, but Hailey has oh, I recommended
to really beautiful. Some of it is so joyous and light. Some of it has this great moodiness.
Is a very, very pretty I had heard it before, but in prepping this episode, I listen to a lot of his music just in the background, and I was constantly lake
Why did anybody stop playing this live like? It was not the the popular style for awhile, but it's so good and so good. I have a fun email that they have again laughing at things, because I need it after that. I'm so sad that you know who knows who knows what he could have composed had he lived longer, so it's a bummer that we don't have more of his work, but I have a funny mail from our listener. Katie titled, the trousers, have wounded us all,
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