Raised by his mother in London, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) started his studies at the Royal College of Music at age 15 as a violin student in 1890. However, the composition bug bit him, and by 1892, he’d abandoned the violin

On the very last Saturday of 1899, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor married Jessie Sarah Fleetwood Walmisley in a parish church at Selhurst, near Croydon, England. Just a regular wedding ceremony, I hear you say, but in reality it followed some very tense

Protesters across the United States have taken to the streets in the wake of George Floyd’s death demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism. And as the international human rights movement “Black Lives Matter,” that protest has resonated