Tag Archives: Coleridge-Taylor

Centenary celebrations promise cake, picnics and song

Posted on August 10, 2012 by insidecroydon

There are two key events coming up in the next couple of weeks in the centenary celebrations for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the world-renowned composer who lived in Croydon. On Wednesday, August 15 – 137 years since Coleridge-Taylor’s birth – there’s to … Continue reading →

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Not much rhyme to Coleridge-Taylor’s lost opera

Posted on February 13, 2012 by insidecroydon

BELLA BARTOCK has returned to Inside Croydon Towers, tiara slightly askew, a couple of pages of tightly-typed copy in her be-gloved hand, after the latest high-brow premiere to be staged at the Fairfield Halls Over the years, I have always … Continue reading →

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Coleridge-Taylor opera to premiere at Ashcroft Theatre

Posted on January 18, 2012 by insidecroydon

The Fairfield Halls is to stage the world premiere of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor‘s long-lost opera Thelma next month. This is the centenary year of Coleridge-Taylor’s death, and Surrey Opera is organising a festival of the work of the Croydon-based composer, whose … Continue reading →

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