Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson ( born June 14, 1932 in Winston- Salem, North Carolina; † March 9, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American conductor and composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, pop music and European Art music.
Life and work
Perkinsons mother, who worked as a piano teacher, Kirchenorganistin and director of a theater company, called him after the Afro- European composer Samuel Coleridge- Taylor ( 1875-1912 ). Perkinson attended until the conclusion of 1949, the High School of Music and Art in New York City. Once there already be choral work " And Behold " had won the school competition, he studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and then Charles Mills at the Manhattan School of Music ( MA 1954) and Earl Kim at Princeton University. From 1959 to 1962 he was part of the faculty of Brooklyn College. During the summer of 1960, 1962 and 1963, he studied in the Netherlands with Franco Ferrara and Dean Dixon, after he had graduated in 1960 and a conducting course at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
1965 Perkinson was one of the founders of the Symphony of the New World in New York (whose music director he was 1999). He was the musical director of Jerome Robbinss American Theater Lab and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from, but also for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Negro Ensemble Company operates. He also worked as a guest conductor.
He also wrote compositions symphonic nature, who were commissioned by American and European orchestras, as well as film, television and ballet music. For example, he wrote a piece " For Bird for Ailey. With Love, "which was influenced by the game of jazz musician Charlie Parker ( and this dedicated ). He collected himself jazz experience by working as a pianist with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln in 1960 and 1964 and went on a European tour; In 1962 he was involved in the keys even with the inclusion of Roach's Impulse album " It's Time". He also wrote arrangements for Marvin Gaye, Harry Belafonte or Donald Byrd and conducted for the latter in 1964 and the studio orchestra. In addition, he also wrote works for Hamiet Bluiett and his ensemble ( recorded on the CD "Blue Black" ).
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Disco Graphical Notes
- " Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004): A Celebration " ( Cedille Records CDR 90000 087)
- " African Heritage Symphonic Series Volume III " ( Cedille Records CDR 90000 066)