Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: She Dwells by Great Kenhawa's Side (SATB) скачать в хорошем качестве

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: She Dwells by Great Kenhawa's Side (SATB)

A video of the making of this recording, and history of the music, can be found here    • Samuel Coleridge Taylor and His Music in A...   in the documentary, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912. This August 2012 recording of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "She Dwells by Great Kenhawa's Side," (1904), a setting for solo vocal quartet of "The Good Part, That Shall Not be Taken Away," from Longfellow's "Poems on Slavery" (1842), with Angela Brown, soprano, Karla Scott, mezzo, Rodrick Dixon​ tenor, Robert Honeysucker​ baritone, Dr. Lester Green​, conductor, and the late Dr. Marva Cooper, pianist. Coleridge-Taylor was commissioned for this work by the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society of Washington, D. C., and he himself conducted the premiere of the work in Washington with four solo singers and the Orchestra of the US Marine Band. (Coleridge-Taylor would be the last civilian guest conductor of the US Marine Band until the late 1970s, and probably the only foreign guest conductor ever.) Notable among the four original soloists was famed African-American baritone Harry T. Burleigh. One thing that makes this performance especially interesting (and historic) is that when Angela Brown, Karla Scott, Rodrick Dixon and Robert Honeysucker sang "She Dwells" in the AME Metropolitan Church in Washington, D. C., they were standing exactly where Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was seated in the 1906 photo by Addison Scurlock that I've included in the video. To the far right in the Scurlock photo, you see Harry T. Burleigh. What makes this poem also especially interesting is Edgar Allan Poe's scathing critique of it and of Longfellow in 1845: "[The poem] has two very effective lines:—'And musical as silver bells / Their falling chains shall be.' The whole poem is in praise of a certain lady who 'was rich and gave up all / To break the iron bands / Of those who waited in her hall / And labored in her lands'—no doubt it is a very commendable and a very comfortable thing, in the Professor, to sit in ease in his library chair, and write verses instructing the southerners how to give up their all with a good grace, and abusing them if they will not; but we have a singular curiosity to know how much of his own, under a change of circumstances, the Professor himself would be willing to surrender. Advice of this character looks well only in the mouth of those who have entitled themselves to give it, by setting an example of the self-sacrifice."