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Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
Part of the Oxford Harmonic Choir 2024-2025 Season
Add to my Calendar 29-06-2025 19:30 29-06-2025 21:30 36 Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Born in the 19th Century, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was one of the very few Black classical composers to achieve large-scale renown. His most popular work by far, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast owes its success to its rhythmic vitality, at times sounding like a pre-echo of the American music that would soon emerge in the early 20th century. Contrasting this is the ethereal fluidity of two of Vaughan Williams’ loveliest works. His 1906 setting of Walt Whitman’s poem Toward the Unknown Region is a hidden gem with two very imposing climaxes, while the famous The Lark Ascending is timeless. Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Sheldonian Theatre
Broad Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3AZ
England
Programme
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown region
Performers
Austin Gunn – tenor
Helen Davis – violin
Oxford Harmonic Choir
Orchestra of Stowe Opera
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Born in the 19th Century, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was one of the very few Black classical composers to achieve large-scale renown. His most popular work by far, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast owes its success to its rhythmic vitality, at times sounding like a pre-echo of the American music that would soon emerge in the early 20th century. Contrasting this is the ethereal fluidity of two of Vaughan Williams’ loveliest works. His 1906 setting of Walt Whitman’s poem Toward the Unknown Region is a hidden gem with two very imposing climaxes, while the famous The Lark Ascending is timeless.
