Phyllis Tate's 'London Fields' was commissioned for the BBC Light Music Festival in 1958.
Composer Biography
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor faced financial struggles, earning almost nothing from his successful choral work 'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast', and died at 37 from the strain of trying to live from composition and teaching.
Composer Biography
Phyllis Tate, a composer known for her versatility, studied with Herbert Farjeon at the Royal Academy of Music, where her operetta 'The Policeman's Serenade' was a success in 1932.
Compositional Technique
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 'Four Characteristic Waltzes' were intended not as ballroom dances, but as subjects treated in waltz rhythm, similar to Brahms' approach.
Composer Biography
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, though born in London, had a father from Sierra Leone and became a favorite pupil of Stanford at the Royal College of Music.
Composer Biography
Granville Bantock, a composer who came to fame around the same time as Elgar, established himself as a conductor at New Brighton, championing the latest British and foreign music.
Composition History
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 'Ballade in A minor' was commissioned by Elgar for the Gloucester meeting of the Three Choirs Festival in 1898.
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