150 years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, overlooked icon of Black classical music

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Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, circa 1905. In November, the London Mozart Players will highlight the composer with a special “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at 150” program. His first American tour was organized by the Black-run Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society of Washington, D.C., and a Coleridge-Taylor Music School was founded on the South Side of Chicago the year after his death. “I first learned about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor through the Sphinx Competition,” Grammy-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart said in an email. But he also enjoyed a potent 20th century advocate in his daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, who was born in 1903 and lived to be 95.