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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Manhattan, New York City or possibly (unconfirmed) Winston-Salem, North Carolina – March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an American composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music.
Jan 28, 2013 · Musician, composer, and conductor Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was born on June 14, 1932, in Manhattan, New York City. Perkinson’s mother, a talented pianist, organist, and theater director in the Bronx, named her son after the Afro-British composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Mar 13, 2004 · March 13, 2004. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, a composer, conductor and pianist who combined styles from the classics to jazz to create sonatas, concertos and symphonies as well as scores for...
Colerigde-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) born in New York, New York, is an African American conductor and composer whose work and influence coexist in popular and classical music.
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, regarded as “one of the really remarkable composers” of the late 20th century with a natural voice that was unhindered by convention. Wikimedia. For much of the history of classical music, European men dominated the compositional world.
Mar 11, 2004 · Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College in Chicago reports that Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson passed away on March 9, 2004, of cancer. He had served the Center since 1998 as its Artistic Director, Performance Program. Perkinson was born in New York in 1932.
Jan 17, 2024 · As a person of color, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) faced inordinate barriers to entry in the overwhelmingly “white” world of classical music. He came of age and began his career in an era before the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
