Meriden, N. H

Dec. 24, 1848. Studied with J. W. Tufts and at N. E. Cons.; orgt. at Portsmouth and Boston; teacher of sight-smging N. E. Cons, since 1883; supervisor of public school music in Dedham 1886-1906 and in Brook line since 1884; director of People’s Singing Cla and conductor Peole’s Choral Union in Boston, and as been very succe ful with these organizations; author of books on sight-singing and public school textbooks; charge of music Boston Univ. since 1906. Cole ridge-Taylor, Samuel, compr. b. London, Aug. 15, 1875. Father, West African, a physician, mother English; studied vln. at 6 with Beck with and later at Royal Coll, of Mus where he also studied comp, under C. V. Stanford; living in London: teacher in Trinity College and conductor of the Handel Society; attained early remarkable succe , commi ioned at one time to write for three festivals; compositions: triple cantata on portions of Long fellow’s Hiawatha charming in sim* plicity, vigor and unusual rhythms; 71 COLLAR cantatas Meg Blane Endymion’s Dream etc.; an oratorio The Atonement, Five Choral Ballads with orchestra; nonet for piano, strings and wind, quintet for clarinet and strings, string quartet, Five Negro Melodies for violin, 'cello and piano symphony in A minor, orchestral rhapsody Endymion Ballade in A minor, Solemn Prelude for orchestra; incidental music to Herod Uly es, Nero and Faust; some forty songs, 24 Negro Melodies transcr. for piano; various piano solos, anthems and part songs, and works in large and small form for violin with orchestra or piano. Visited United States in 1904, 1906 and again in 1910 to direct the first reduction of Bamboula Rhapsody E ance for orch. at the Norfolk (Conn.) Festival; d. Aug. 1, 1912.