Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by REGINALD BURSTON
It was the appearance of the first part of Hiawatha, in 1898, which spread
Coleridge-Taylor's fame all over the English-speaking world, and as it was the composer's first really important success, so it has remained the most popular of all his music. In its vivid and yet simple rhythm, its fresh and natural melody, and in the wan-nth of its orchestral treatment, the music is obviously ideally mated with Long-fellow's poem. The ' Wedding Feast' was first given alone, the second part, ' The Death of Minnehaha ', appearing a year later at a North Staffordshire Festival. ' Hiawatha's Departure ', which completes the trilogy, was first given by the Roya! Choral Society in London in the spring of 1900.