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A screening of the new documentary film Deep River: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912, and a discussion with the filmmaker, Charles Kaufmann, will take place on Wednesday, April 9, from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. in Ciminelli Recital Hall (third floor of Rockwell Hall). This fascinating new film explores the life of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his touring experiences in early twentieth-century America, during which he brought the spiritual “Deep River” to prominence and redefined the role of race in American music. The event is free and open to the public.

Presented by the Equity and Campus Diversity Office and the Music Department and curated by Carolyn Guzski, assistant professor of music history, the film also features insights into Coleridge-Taylor’s celebrated choral setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha and his creative partnership with Maud Powell, the first woman to achieve international renown as a concert violinist.

Award-winning composer, conductor, and documentary filmmaker Charles Kaufmann is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and Yale University.