Coleridge-Taylor — In thee, O Lord [SATB + organ]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was born in London to an English mother and a father from Sierra Leone. He entered the Royal College of Music at fifteen, studying composition under C.V. Stanford, and within a decade had become one of the most celebrated British composers of his generation. His cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1898) brought him international fame and three conducting tours of the United States. He died of pneumonia in 1912 at thirty-seven, and though his music was widely performed in his lifetime, much of it fell out of the repertoire after his death and is only now being recovered.