Romance of the Prairie Lilies

Composer: COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel
  • Coleridge-Taylor likely composed Romance of the Prairie Lilies, a “Dream Poem,” op. 39, in 1899.2
  • NB: despite sharing a genre, year, and opus number, this work is not to be confused with Coleridge-Taylor’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1899). The two pieces contain entirely different music. (Several works in Coleridge-Taylor’s catalog have ended up with duplicated opus numbers.)

Sources

  2. David Ades, liner notes to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture et al, RTE Concert Orchestra, Adrian Leaper, Marco Polo, CD, 8.223516, 2003.
  3. This work was orchestrated by Percy Fletcher, who was a composer and theatrical music director in early 1900s London.
  4. We don’t know for what occasion this arrangement was made, but in a 1989 edition of The Black Perspective in Music, Jeffrey Green suggests that this piece might have been used in one of Fletcher’s theater works.1 Graham Lock, Val Wilmer, and Jeffrey Green, “Correspondence” (The Black Perspective in Music 17, no. 1/2,1989): 209-11, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1214786.

Cut IDs

21330