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 Company at the Battersea Arts…