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 The Song of Hiawatha, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s setting of Henry Longfellow’s