Great Composers: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

[@georgealderson4424]

Wow! You really packed a lot of information about a short life into a short video. The racism is shameful then and now. Thank you for this most fascinating film Sir.

[@MontoyaMatrix]

The dirty blonde hair was better for his skin tone. Still adorable, though. We are blest with these info-bits. I'd have never known much about Morton Feldman and many others, if not for sitting back with popcorn to watch on of ClassicalaNerd's shows. (Because i never Wikipedia with popcorn.) Bravo!

[@O5680]

I personally think Coleridge-Taylor was one of the best orchestrators in history, but calling him "black Mahler" is not great because his music sounds rather unique and personal.

[@chessematics]

I had to read the name twice to make sure this is not about the poet.

[@spiritualneutralist2597]

Thank you very much.

[@chaplaintaylor2327]

God morning , Thank you for sharing Samuel Coleridge Taylor's life Another Hidden Figure.

[@moniquethomas7601]

I had read about Samuel Coleridge Taylor as a child long ago, and lamented over the fact that he was taken from us at such a young age. What little I have heard of his music is exhilarating. I would have loved to have seen him conduct in my hometown of NYC- how historic! BTW: even after he was rushed from the train station to his bed to recover from the pneumonia that was to claim him, he did not rest. He was working- COMPOSING- and conducting an orchestra, when he suddenly expired, falling back onto his pile of pillows. Tragic, but I don't think he would have gone any other way. He was just that devoted to his art. Thanks for your video.

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[@robertwaddell8427]

Thanks for this! Superlative music regardless of whether choral or instrumental. I’m surprised his works aren’t performed more often. They certainly are deserving.

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[@SuperSpace2009]

Thank you Classical Nerd, You are a true teacher! I did not know about Taylor or Saint-Georges until 2021 the beginning of this year! You went in detail of their life! I will see more of your channel! Do you know anymore black people who are in classical music back then! I Iove to listen to the Classical Music! I am glad to find out we were in the Classical area doing that time! But I am also SAD and angry how they hide this! Not one word mentioned about these men though many years! Just thank about it! ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO BRING MUSIC TO THE WORLD MAY HAVE BEEN STOP BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR! OR THE HATED OF OTHERS! JUST THINK OF THE MUSIC WE COULD HAVE HEARD! IT IS JUST AMAZING HOW OTHER PEOPLE REFUSED TO LET OTHER PEOPLE DO GOOD IN THE WORLD! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT!

[@marcusaurelius820]

classical nerd can you do one on joesph boulogne?

[@ClassicalNerd]

You're in luck-Joseph Bologne is in the request queue already!

[@marcusaurelius820]

Classical Nerd alright awesome do you think classical music will ever be popular again?

[@ClassicalNerd]

Part of what I'm trying to do on this channel is provide a way of "de-mystifying" classical music, because I think people think it's uppity or pretentious and they're not entirely wrong. Part of the problem is that, when the average person hears "classical music," they're hearing one of about fifty or so standard pieces that, to be quite honest, begin to sound the same after a while. Bach and Mozart are _fantastic_ composers and there's a reason their music is still alive, but if that's all classical radio stations play, they're pandering to a smaller and smaller audience instead of taking the scary plunge and broadcasting something outside of that limited scope. Its future popularity rests on the shoulders of today's composers; if new pieces aren't written that are of popular appeal, then classical musicians will essentially become historians and symphony orchestras their museums. An understanding-at least, at a basic level-of history and theory is essential to becoming musically literate. I'd like to consider myself an optimist, and so I have some high hopes for classical music going forward. "Modern music" has become synonymous with weird sounds and atonal noises, and the pervading trend for several decades in the 20th century was serialism, a style of music that intentionally created a hard-to-listen-to music on the basis of the false dichotomy of theoretical interest being greater than aural interest. As that has passed away and musical genres are once again blending and crossing over, there's a bright future-but it will never come to pass if we, as the musically interested public, don't work at actively changing the pretentiousness that pervades a lot of the musical world. For instance ... a _lot_ of classical musicians seem to deride the work of Eric Whitacre, and it seems to be simply on the basis of his public popularity. Taken on his own merits, he's one of the truly interesting voices of today and he's pioneered so much in choral and concert band works. I don't think anyone would call him the next Bach, but the dislike of him seems to originate _in_ the fact that he's popular. This is something that _has_ to change, and modern music has to re-embrace connecting with an audience on an emotional level while still making their music of significant theoretical interest. I see that happening more and more with a lot of composers-myself included-and if that trend continues, I think there will be another flourishing.

[@marcusaurelius820]

Classical Nerd I agree with you a lot i think if classical music ever get popular again it have to be crossover with a different type of music and it's have to be experimental and classical music need better marketing

[@marcusaurelius820]

Classical Nerd and why do people think it's so bad to be pretentious?