The Music Man — Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Crowned with Fame

“It is given but to few men in so short a time to create for themselves a position of such prominence on two continents…” Booker T. Washington, 1904

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Image: musicforassemblies.co.uk

I use the term Crowned with Fame because it is the title of a play by Michael Ellis (with superb direction by Sue Pomeroy of later National Theatre fame under Sir Peter Hall), which was first produced by the Good…