March/April 2022 Newsletter

Scott Joplin (1868-1917) was a composer and pianist known as the “King of Ragtime” for his famous ragtime compositions. During his career as a composer, he wrote over 40 original ragtime compositions, including “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer”, possibly the two...

The world's first black conductor, colonel of the world's first black military corps, and the finest swordsman in all of Europe - Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a French classical composer, virtuoso violinist, conductor of Le Concert des Amateurs and...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a prolific English composer and conductor, known for his three cantatas on the epic poem Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.In 1904, on his first tour to the United States, Coleridge-Taylor was received by...