Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

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Exercise Run 02:11 Tools
Flashbulbs 02:33 Tools
The Rumble 01:46 Tools
Daydreams 03:51 Tools
Funeral Parlor 01:28 Tools
The Junkies 02:17 Tools
Louisiana Blues Strut (A Cakewalk) 02:44 Tools
Please Be There 03:24 Tools
The Robbery and the Chase 03:24 Tools
End Title (Sonny's Theme) 03:02 Tools
Father and Son 03:02 Tools
Girl, Girl,Girl (Sonny And Virginia) 03:13 Tools
A New Direction 01:35 Tools
Where Do I Go From Here? (Sonny Carson's Theme) 03:34 Tools
Exercise Run ['Sonny's Missing'] 02:14 Tools
Lamentations, "Black Folk Song Suite": I. Fuguing Tune: resolute 03:34 Tools
1-Where Do I Go From Here? (Sonny Carson's Theme) 03:34 Tools
Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin: I. Plain Blue/s 03:34 Tools
10-Father And Son 01:55 Tools
12-A New Direction 01:55 Tools
Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin: II. Just Blue/s 01:55 Tools
Sinfonietta No. 1: II. Song Form: Largo 02:44 Tools
4-Girl, Girl,Girl (Sonny And Virginia) 01:55 Tools
Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin: III. Jettin' Blue/s 01:55 Tools
2-The Robbery And The Chase 02:47 Tools
The Junkies ['Zonin''] 02:17 Tools
Sinfonietta No. 1: I. Sonata Allegro 02:44 Tools
Where Do I Go From Here (Sonny Carson's Theme) 03:34 Tools
Lonesome Lover 02:44 Tools
Sinfonietta No. 1: III. Rondo: Allegro furioso 02:44 Tools
Lamentations, "Black Folk Song Suite": III. Calvary Ostinato (quarter note = 80-88) 02:44 Tools
Grass 02:44 Tools
Blues Forms for Solo Violin: I. Plain Blue/s: quarter note = 88-96 02:44 Tools
04 Girl, Girl,Girl (Sonny And Virginia) 03:13 Tools
01 Where Do I Go From Here (Sonny Carson's Theme) 03:34 Tools
Blues Forms for Solo Violin: II. Just Blue/s: Very free 03:34 Tools
Movement for String Trio 02:44 Tools
02 The Robbery And The Chase 02:44 Tools
Lamentations, "Black Folk Song Suite": IV. Perpetual Motion (quarter note = 76) 02:44 Tools
Lamentations, "Black Folk Song Suite": II. Song Form: plaintive 02:44 Tools
Girl, Girl, Girl (Sonny and Virginia) 02:44 Tools
Blues Forms for Solo Violin: III. Jettin' Blue/s: Fast 02:44 Tools
String Quartet No. 1, "Calvary": I. Allegro 02:44 Tools
String Quartet No. 1, "Calvary": III. Rondo: Allegro vivace 02:44 Tools
String Quartet No. 1, "Calvary": II. quarter note = 54 02:44 Tools
10 Father And Son 02:44 Tools
12 A New Direction 02:44 Tools
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina—March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an innovative American composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was Afro-American. He was named for the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Perkinson's mother was active in music and the arts as a piano teacher, church organist, and director of a theater company. Perkinson attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City and studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and Charles Mills at the Manhattan School of Music and Earl Kim at Princeton University. He was on the faculty of Brooklyn College (1959-1962) and studied conducting in the summers of 1960, 1962, and 1963 in The Netherlands with Franco Ferrara and Dean Dixon and also learned conducting in 1960 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1965 Perkinson cofounded the Symphony of the New World in New York. and later became its Music Director. He was also Music Director of Jerome Robbins's American Theater Lab and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Perkinson composed a ballet for Ailey entitled For Bird, With Love inspired by the music of jazz great Charlie Parker. Perkinson wrote a great deal of classical music, but was equally well-versed in jazz and popular music. He served briefly as pianist for drummer Max Roach’s quartet and wrote arrangements for Roach, Marvin Gaye, and Harry Belafonte. He also composed and conducted music for films including A Warm December starring Sidney Poitier and the documentary Montgomery to Memphis about Martin Luther King. Perkinson's music has a blend of Baroque counterpoint; American Romanticism; elements of the blues, spirituals, and black folk music; and rhythmic ingenuity. [edit] Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.