Zimmerli Concert Series
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Epic S AT U R D AY
April 23
2022
7:00 pm @ Twichell Auditorium, Zimmerli Performance Center
Petite suite de concert, op. 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 8 min I. Le caprice de Nannette IV. Le tarantelle frétillante Symphony no. 1 in D Major, “Titan” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gustav Mahler 53 min I. Langsam schleppend II. Kräftig bewegt III. Feierlich und gemessen IV. Stürmisch bewegt Programs subject to change | All timings are approximate.
Program Notes
Petite Suite Samuel ColeridgeTaylor (1875-1912)
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If – as is at least arguable – the Chevalier de St. Georges (page 33) has the most cinematic biography in all of classical music, then surely Samuel ColeridgeTaylor’s story is among its most novelistic. Coleridge-Taylor was the son of Alice Martin, a suburban farrier’s daughter, and
Daniel Taylor, a Krio man from the West African nation of Sierra Leone who had been studying medicine in London. Daniel being unaware of Alice’s pregnancy when he returned to Africa, Alice, a free-spirited 19-year-old lover of literature, named her baby for the poet Samuel TaylorColeridge; young Coleridge, as he was
