Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even during his lifetime.

On a new album with the National Philharmonic, conductor Michael Repper and violinist Curtis Stewart breathe new life into music by the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was a sensation in his time. His 150th birth anniversary provides a welcome opportunity, as Repper tells WRTI.

August 9, 2021. She's the eldest of seven in an increasingly famous English family of musical siblings. Isata Kanneh-Mason's idea for her second solo…