Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

[@Thestephouse1]

O my goodness, I sung this many years ago, what a delight to find it now, on home hospice. Thank you all so much

[@BerkeleyRadical]

Praying for you! ❤

[@janeough45]

i wish with all my heart i could sing this beautiful story again along with my twin sister ......leeds town hall 1959 i hope someone remembers the best time of our very young lives xxxx

[@stevemathews9535]

I was introduced to this music at Highbury Primary School (Portsmouth UK) probably around 1957 when I would have been 9 years old. Mr Gobbles our teacher played it to us from a reel to reel tape recorder. He used to play us Kathleen Ferrier singing "Blow the Wind Southerly" also - an attempt calm the savage breast no doubt.

[@snejanav6612]

Today I have discovered this beautiful piece of music 🎼 by a composer of African-English descent, whom I had never heard of before. Samuel Coleridge Taylor is a genius of whom the African people should be very proud of. What a remarkable man, a composer who nowadays is not often performed in the Proms or on classic FM or radio 3. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 has great 👍 many composers not to be forgotten about! Lovely music 🎶

[@carelessrappide]

Please remember that he was half white too. A biracial person therefore of DUAL heritage.

[@jackjude]

@@carelessrappide The "white" heritage is not as interesting though, in the context of his era, the life he lived and profession.

[@maggymay7827]

I remember in 1960 I along with 400 other Secondary Modern School best in show students across South Yorkshire sang Hiawath''s Wedding Feast at Leeds Town Hall It was an event none of us will forget.12 of us practiced for months after school [Wombwell Secondary Modern School For Girls] under the guidance of Miss Phillips probably one of the finest teachers ever.This was a difficult piece to learn.My twin sister Jane and I still sing along with this.. I often wonder if there was a tape made of our hand picked choir? City Choir fills my heart with joy and memories.

[@maggymay7827]

We also sang All In The April Evening after the Hiawatha performance.

[@janeough45]

sallie i will love you always ,,,, we will sing together until eternity xxx

[@TropicWonder]

@@janeough45 wow, sorry for your loss, hope this video brought you some comfort

[@elizabethlewis1521]

I sang in a recording of this with the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra (BSO) many years ago - I think the 1980s. I still have the album.

[@cmayford4446]

We sang this as the Lancashire Youth Choir, Blackburn King George's Hall, in 1961. Thank you for posting this...takes one back a bit!

[@gervaisthomas7988]

What a pity we don't hear this any more. When I tried to order a CD years ago from a leading music store in Sydney years ago, they couldn't locate one. Thank goodness for Utube

[@wisharla]

Brilliant simply "Brilliant" Bravo

[@janeough45]

1 SAW A HUGE WOMENS CHOIR SING THIS AT THE CITY HALL IN SHEFFIELD YEARS OGO IT WAS SO LOVELY TO BE ABLE TO SING IT WORD PERFECT .....MY TWIN SISTER SALLIE AND I SANG HIAWATHAS WEDDING IN 1960 AT LEEDS TOWN HALL ,ALONG WITH 400 OTHER SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM THE WEST RIDING SCHOOLS IT WAS WONDERFUL ....INFACT WE SANG THE BEST VERSION I HAVE EVER HEARD THEN OR NOW ......XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[@brianrodney5202]

Can you remember whether the orchestra was the long-defunct Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and conducted , maybe, by Maurice Miles ?

[@janeough45]

brian rodney it was the yorkshire symphony orchestra that played in leeds town hall im very proud to say ...not sure about the conductor ?did you play in the orchestra ? i do hope so xxx ps maggy may is my twin sister xx

[@luketaylor-adams8616]

Wonderful to sing, lilting haunting melodies yet sadly neglected these days. I sang in this at Birmingham Town Hall in the Grammar Schools Choir circa 1972. It still stays with me. A very belated thank you to the Birmingham Music Education Department.

[@cmayfordian4451]

A great favourite. Thank you for posting this.

[@CityChoirDunedin]

C Mayfordian You are welcome; we loved it too!

[@jeanfewins8894]

I remember singing this at Saltley Grammar School (as was) in the early 60's Wonderful times under the direction of Mr Gillet, an inspiration, and Mr Atkins, who accompanied on the piano and sang a glorious solo. Great memories.

[@maryarnold1298]

I am so grateful for this information. I never knew.

[@AirOnaGeeString]

I have really enjoyed this performance it is one of the best versions on KZbin

[@CityChoirDunedin]

Thank you Conrad,we are glad you enjoyed it!

[@hughcourage5105]

I remember singing this in the mid 1960s, with the choral society of Allhallows School, near Lyme Regis. Gerald English sang the tenor solo "Onaway awake beloved". Fabulous!

[@DavidButterworth202]

The Oldham Hulme Grammar School for Girls upper school sung this for a Speech Day performance in November 1976. Norman Higgins was the conductor and I accompanied on piano. Significantly all the girls from forms Lower 5 to Upper 6 took part, musicians and non musicians alike and all without copies as they had learned it from memory! I remember how wonderful it sounded in the packed Boys' School Hall-unforgettable! Nothing on this scale has been attempted since, merely items by the school choirs and I doubt the interest or motivation would exist nowadays. I shall try to upload the version from LP record made all those years ago.

[@josieposie1]

Countesthorpe Festival Chorus are doing it for their summer project this year!

[@daviddelima1367]

yes this is great looking forward to hear this at the countesthorpe festival chorus which i will be taking part in .thank you for this production

[@Tenortalker]

Well done to everyone. Sadly this work has fallen out of popularity in the UK now. I have been asked to be soloist in two performances over the years. Occasionally I sing 'Onaway' in recital. It is a lovely , tuneful, bright cantata which deserves to be performed more often. Congratulations for your fine performance.

[@Tiffin59]

It's back! Don't worry.... Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir’s Spring Concert 7.30pm Saturday 1st April 2017 All Saint’s Parish Church, Leamington Spa, CV31 1AA

[@Tenortalker]

Good luck for the concert Tiffin59 - really enjoy singing the cantata and here's to a big audience turn out . I do hope that you will be following the old Royal Choral Society tradition and having costumes, waterfalls, wigwams, backdrops - even the audience should come dressed up . I'm sure that would be fun!

[@Tiffin59]

Tenortalker..........brilliant suggestion, but it would need a long AGM to change ladies' concert dress. Yes - I love the photos of the old full dress Albert Hall performances, and, I think, some singers in Regents Park.

[@sallietaylor8503]

Tenortalker thank you.

[@adrianlopez2533]

I remember in my youth (long time ago ) singing in a song about "then said they to Chebeabus ??? a friend of Hiawatha...etc and so longing to hear that again ,hope its on this ! One of the greatest songs you could ever wish to sing

[@sallietaylor8503]

Adam this must be sang in two halves.

[@johnsmith-eh3yc]

Really competent composition. The opening theme (used throughout) does however remind me of Wagner's Flying Dutchman theme dont know if anyone else thought so or if Coleridge-Taylor referred to it

[@jimhardwick2944]

Lenny Henry brought me here!!!!

[@denisenilsson1366]

Jim Hardwick, me too!

[@stracepipe]

Michael Portillo brought me here!

[@Holly3557]

Me too

[@Tiffin59]

You are a tough act to follow, but we'll be trying! Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir’s Spring Concert 7.30pm Saturday 1st April 2017 All Saint’s Parish Church, Leamington Spa, CV31 1AA

[@ashleythomas6719]

Anyone know the form of this song?

[@CityChoirDunedin]

It's a cantata. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha_(Coleridge-Taylor)

[@snejanav6612]

I read it was the first of a trilogy, yes a cantata, which he Samuel Coleridge Taylor composed when he was 23 years old! Marvellous music

[@kei10492]

🥲🥲

[@tomwhelan4381]

thats a lot of white people

[@carelessrappide]

Well, he was half white.

[@robwilde3492]

Idiot.

[@malebitsatimbuktu3352]

The foremost musician of his race

[@TropicWonder]

Or any race. Why even mention race? It is a great composition for a human being!!!

[@carelessrappide]

His races. Plural as he was biracial