From sensation to spectacular, to silence: the strange history of Coleridge-Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha
Chances to hear Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral masterpiece in concert are rare. Ahead of its belated Edinburgh festival premiere with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, we look at the epic work - and its epic baggage
"Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."
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